Using Connect Enterprise Web Services

A sample application

This guide includes a sample application, firstapp, which is available in the documentation/samples folder on the product CD. The sample application is written in Java and JSP using a model-view-controller architecture and runs on any web application server with a J2EE servlet container. The sample demonstrates how to implement Connect Enterprise meeting functionality in a Java custom application or portal, showing how to log in a user, list a user's meetings, and create, update, and delete meetings.

The sample application code is available for you to reuse, modify, or extend. All sample files referenced in this appendix are within the firstapp.zip sample file. You will find instructions for installing and running the sample application in its ReadMe file.

As you build and design your application, there are several points about the Adobe Connect Enterprise Web Services XML API you should keep in mind:

Sequence of API calls Calls to the XML API often need to be made in a specific sequence. For example, you need to get the principal-id of a user and the sco-id of a meeting before you call permissions-update to make the user a meeting presenter. Call sequences for various tasks are described in the first chapters of this guide.

Different parameter names for the same value A value might have one parameter name in one call and a different parameter name in another call. For example, the unique ID of a SCO might be a sco-id when used with sco-info, but an acl-id in permissions-update. It's the same value in both calls. The best way to learn this is to use the API reference in this guide.

SCOs are not object-oriented A SCO is a shareable content object on the server (for a complete definition, see Find SCOs). A SCO can be a meeting, presentation, course, image, folder, or any object on the server. SCOs are stored within folders in a navigation hierarchy. However, there is no object-oriented structure for SCOs, and one type of SCO is not a subclass of another type. Keep this in mind as you design your application.

Send me an e-mail when comments are added to this page | Comment Report

Current page: http://livedocs.adobe.com/breeze/6/xml_api/appa_fir.htm