Developer's Guide

Documents technical-oriented information that will help developers further extend and exploit gCube’s source code. The document will target two classes of programmers:

• Those who want to reuse the code – Programmers who will use gCube’s libraries to build their own tools, without need to access the source code.
• Those who want to modify/extend the source code – Programmers who will use the platforms source code to enhance it, correct it, adapt it to different environments and applications domains.

Contents

1. Introduction
2. gCube Components Programming Reference
   1. Collective Layer
      1. Broker and Match Maker
      2. DL Management
      3. DIS-BDII-Client
      4. DIS-Broker
      5. DIS-HLS-Client
      6. DIS-IC
      7. DIS-IP
      8. DIS-Registry
      9. DVOS Authorization
      10. NAL
   2. Digital Library Creation and Management
      1. VDL Definition Repository
   3. Content and Metadata Management
      1. Annotation Back End
      2. Metadata Broker
      3. Metadata Catalog
      4. XML Indexer
   4. Index and Search Management
      1. Content Source Description
      2. Content Source Selection
      3. Data Fusion
      4. Full Text Index
      5. Geographical - Spatial Index
      6. Forward Index
      7. ResultSet Framework
   5. Process Management
      1. Process Optimisation Services
3. Developing a gCube Component
   1. Developing a Service
   2. DILIGENT Provider
   3. Profile Specification
   4. Service Archive Specification
4. Portlet Development
   1. Developing Portlets with GWT
   2. Using credentials in Portlets and Servlets
   3. General guidelines about Portlet StyleSheets
5. Security
   1. DILIGENT Security Model
   2. How To Configure Service Security
   3. Common Security Troubleshooting
   4. DILIGENT Gridsphere and Portal Security patch
6. References
7. Glossary