1 Overview of Oracle Workspaces SDK

Oracle Workspaces is an extremely flexible framework that organizes and links Oracle Collaboration Suite components and their data.

Capabilities

The Oracle Workspaces SDK is a complete application development framework for integrating custom applications with the Oracle Workspaces environment. The following are the types of functionality the Oracle Workspaces SDK supports:

• Java SDK: A server-side SDK for accessing the Oracle Workspaces environment

  • Workspace management APIs

    • Create new, delete, search for, and access existing workspaces

    • Query and modify contents of workspaces (add, modify, and remove library contents, meetings, tasks, discussion forums and topics, email and discussion messages, announcements, views and links)

    • Modify workspace properties, such as name and description. See Appendix A, "Workspace and Application Properties" for a list of these properties.

    • Add and remove workspace members, modify member's roles, and access member's presence (and initiate chat sessions using Oracle Real-Time Collaboration protocol).

  • Application management APIs

    • Manage application-level properties and roles

    • Manage workspace templates

    • Manage component services (such as Oracle Calendar)

• URI model

  • Oracle Workspaces provides a documented URL-based access method to retrieve any page in the Oracle Workspaces Web client.

• Template development

  • Templates are XML documents that are used to create new workspaces with some predefined settings and content. These settings and content include workspace properties, library structure, library content, discussion forums, tasks, views, and members. Templates can be created based on an existing workspace, or created and edited with standard XML development tools or the Java SDK.

Supported Standards

The following standards are supported by Oracle Workspaces:

• IMAP/SMTP for Workspaces Inbox and Discussions

• WebDAV Access to Library content

• All other protocols supported by Oracle Content Services. See Oracle Content Services Application Developer's Guide for more information.