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 interface with gCube or to reuse gCube 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.

The Guide is organised as follows. Overview provides the developer with a general summary of the gCube technology. How-to provides the developer with pragmatic, detailed and practical advice on gCube technology. Components Programming Reference Sections provide the developer with a detailed description of the gCube constituents organising them according to a Functionality-oriented View and a Data-typology-oriented View.

Overview

gCube Reference Model

gCube Reference Architecture

Glossary

How-tos

How to develop a gCube Component

How to develop a gCube Portlet

How to interface with a gCube-based Infrastructure (a.k.a. Featherweight Stack Client)

How to interface with a gCube-based Infrastructure (a.k.a. the gCube Client Libraries Framework)

How to turn software applications and containers into gCube resources (a.k.a. the gCube SmartGears Framework)

How to integrate gCube system with external Cloud Providers

Accounting

How to produce accounting records

How to consume accounting records

Data Analytics

How to implement algorithms for the Statistical Manager

How-to Interact with the Statistical Manager by means of a thin client

How to integrate legacy applications and offer them via WPS

Data Publishing

How to publish ISO-compliant metadata in the gCube SDI

Data Discovery and Access

How to retrieve one specific species distribution map as GIS layer or image

Components Programming Reference: Functionality-oriented View

Core-facilities

Data Infrastructure Management Facilities

Data Infrastructure Policy-oriented Security Facilities

Workflow Management Facilities

Data Management Facilities

Data Access and Storage Facilities

Data Transfer Facilities

Data Assessment, Harmonisation, and Certification Facilities

Data Consumption Facilities

Data Retrieval Facilities

Data Manipulation Facilities

Data Mining Facilities

Data Visualisation Facilities

Semantic Data Analysis Facilities

gCube APIs

Social Networking Library and Social Networking Library Web Service Interface

Portal Context and Portal User, Group and Roles Management

Portal Mailing API

gCube Presentation Services

GCube Widgets Store

Components Programming Reference: Data-typology-oriented View

Biodiversity Data Facilities

Geospatial Data Facilities

Semantic Data Facilities

Statistical Data Facilities