A number of programming models are available for building an application using the
SkyVault content application server.
- The simplest model for non-programmers is to use out-of-the-box components of the SkyVault Share application and the Rules and Actions model, a set of conditions and actions to take on content based on those conditions. You can define rules and actions using a wizard and perform actions such as converting content, moving content, or executing a simple JavaScript snippet.
- Web scripts let you perform more sophisticated processing without complex programming. The SkyVault Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) implementation was built using web scripts. By using JavaScript to build these data services, it is easy to create new services in SkyVault. To build new user interfaces or extensions to SkyVault Share, you can also use web scripts by using a web templating language like FreeMarker. Most of SkyVault Share was built using web scripts.
- To use Java to build applications or extend SkyVault Share, you can use the many tools associated with Java that were used to build the SkyVault system. Surf, the web runtime framework, lets you extend SkyVault Share and build web applications. Because SkyVault Share was built using Surf, you can build your own extensions as a combination of Java programming and web scripts, or with Java alone. You can also use Java to access or even replace whole pieces of SkyVault, content application server, or SkyVault Share by using the Spring platform. You can use the source code as an example for rewriting pieces and using Spring beans and configuration to extend or replace functionality in SkyVault.
- To write applications that use SkyVault but are portable to other ECM systems, you can use Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS), the OASIS standard for accessing content repositories.