The Unified API supports programmers and makes the administrator's life simple.
Programming is easy.
While the API is comprehensive, a simple application might still not use more than half a dozen classes. This greatly reduces the initial learning effort for using the API.
Creating a connection to Content Server and Workflow Server is as simple as calling a single method. Afterwards, the connection provides quick access to the entire system.
As different parts of the API share a common style and in fact a common metamodel, it is comparatively easy to acquire knowledge about new parts of the API.
The API explicitly specifies preconditions and postconditions and indicates the possible events and exceptions, leaving little room for ambiguities.
Convenience methods simplify common tasks.
Deployment is easy.
Deploying an application that uses the Unified API is straightforward. Adding a few jars to the class path is all that is needed. The API does not demand special configuration files.
Through a management interface it is possible to control Unified API applications at runtime.
The API is memory-efficient.
Multiple sessions per connection are possible, sharing a common cache while providing individual rights checks.
All stateful objects are thin wrappers that use little memory and fetch their state through the common cache as needed.
The API is robust.
The Unified API can survive server restarts, providing a continuous event stream and maintaining cache consistency.
The cache size is configurable in bytes, virtually eliminating fluctuations of memory usage by the API.
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