Home Library 1.0 API

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The Home Library manage and persist the users homes.

Architecture

The user's homes are organized in scopes.

The users and the homes for a specific scope are managed by the HomeManager.

Each user home (Home) have a workspace area (WorkspaceArea) and a data area (DataArea).

Figure 1. Home Library Reference Architecture

Workspace Area model

Each element contained in a workspace area is a WorkspaceAreaItem. There are two kind of item container: the Workspace and the Basket, both can be referred as WorkspaceFolder.

A workspace can contain one or more workspacefolder.

A basket can contain only BasketItems.

Figure 2. Workspace Area model

How to retrieve an User WorkspaceArea from a servlet

To retrieve a WorkspaceArea for a User you can use the getWorkspaceArea static method from HomeLibrary class. This method required only the current D4ScienceSession.

WorkspaceArea wa = HomeLibrary.getUserWorkspaceArea(session);

References

The most recent presentation about the Home Library can be found there: http://bscw.research-infrastructures.eu/bscw/bscw.cgi/d107608/06.%20HomeLibrary.ppt