CoreMedia Unified API Developer Manual

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07.Mar 2017
1. Preface
1.1. Audience
1.2. Typographic Conventions
1.3. CoreMedia Services
1.3.1. Registration
1.3.2. CoreMedia Releases
1.3.3. Documentation
1.3.4. CoreMedia Training
1.3.5. CoreMedia Support
1.4. Change Chapter
2. Unified API Overview
2.1. Features and Design Goals
2.2. Use Cases
3. An Introductory Example
4. Common Concepts
4.1. Connection
4.1.1. Creating a Connection
4.1.2. Lifecycle and Caching
4.1.3. Connection Listener
4.1.4. Server Control
4.2. Repositories and Services
4.3. Objects
4.4. Values
4.4.1. XML Texts
4.4.2. Blobs
4.4.3. Lists
4.4.4. Structs
4.5. Types
4.6. Identifiers and Equality
4.7. Listeners
4.8. Exceptions
4.9. Sessions
4.10. Caching
4.11. Serialization
4.12. Further Reading
5. The Content Repository
5.1. Objects
5.2. Types
5.3. Access Control
5.4. Publication Service
5.5. Query Service
5.6. Search Service of the Unified API
5.7. Workflow Content Service
5.8. Property Service
5.9. Listeners
5.10. Further Reading
6. The Workflow Repository
6.1. Objects
6.2. Workflow States
6.3. Differences to the Classic Workflow API
6.4. The Work List Service
6.5. Workflow Variables and Views
6.6. The Access Control Service
6.7. Managing Process Definitions
6.8. Events
6.9. Timers
6.10. Writing Own Plugins
6.10.1. Programming Restrictions
6.10.2. Serialization
6.10.3. Actions
6.10.4. Long Actions
6.10.5. Expressions
6.10.6. Performer Policies
6.10.7. Rights Policies
6.10.8. Remote Client Actions
6.10.9. Managers
6.11. Examples
6.11.1. Example Clients
6.11.2. Example Plugins
6.11.3. Example Code of the Mail Action
6.12. Guide to the API Documentation
7. The User Repository
7.1. Objects
7.2. Retrieving Objects
7.3. Listeners
7.4. Further Reading
Glossary
Index

List of Figures

4.1. Class Diagram: Repositories and Services
4.2. Class Diagram: Blobs
4.3. Class Diagram: Types
4.4. Class Diagram: Repositories and Identified Objects
4.5. Class Diagram: Listeners
5.1. Class Diagram: Content and Versions
5.2. Statechart: Checked In and Out
5.3. Statechart: Place Approvals
5.4. Statechart: Deleting
5.5. Statechart: Version
5.6. Statechart: Content Publication
6.1. Workflow Class Diagram
6.2. States of a process
6.3. States of an automated task
6.4. States of a Task
6.5. Workflow Object and View Definitions
6.6. Workflow views
7.1. Class Diagram: Users and Groups

List of Tables

1.1. Typographic conventions
1.2. Pictographs
1.3. CoreMedia manuals
1.4. Log files check list
1.5. Changes
4.1. Connection properties
4.2. Parameters of connection's management bean
4.3. ID formats for CapObject
4.4. ID formats for CapType
4.5. ID formats for other objects
5.1. Rights for the Unified API
5.2. Types in subexpressions
6.1. WfAPI signal names and UAPI event classes

List of Examples

3.1. Create a new folder
4.1. Open a session
4.2. Log in another session
4.3. Using a session pool
6.1. AbortAllProcesses
6.2. Suspend My Processes
6.3. Create Process Example
6.4. The SendMail action
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