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 Architecture
3. Reference Model
4. gCube Components Programming Reference
   1. gCube Infrastructure Enabling Services
      1. Information System
      2. Virtual Organisation Management
         1. Security Library (NEW)
         2. Virtual Organisation Management LEGACY
      3. VRE Management
      4. Execution Engine
      5. Workflow Engine
      6. Messaging Infrastructure
      7. Utility and Common Libraries
         1. common-utils-encryption
   2. gCube Information Organisation Services
      1. Storage Manager
      2. Storage Manager (OLD)
      3. Content Manager
      4. Content Manager Library
      5. gCube Document Model and gCube Model Library
      6. gCube Document Library
      7. View Manager
   3. gCube Information Organisation Services (LEGACY)
      1. Storage Management
      2. Content Management
      3. Collection Management
      4. Metadata Management
      5. Annotation Management
      6. Content Import
   4. gCube Information Retrieval Services
      1. gCube ResultSet (gRS)
      2. gCube ResultSet 2 (gRS2)
      3. Search Framework (LEGACY)
      4. Search 2 Framework (NEW)
      5. OpenSearch Framework
      6. Index Management Framework
      7. Data Transformation
      8. Personalisation
      9. Distributed Information Retrieval Support Framework
      10. gCube Ontology Management Service
   5. gCube Data Consumption Facilities
      1. Ecological Modeling: Features for Analyzing Biological Phenomena and Species
      2. Environment Explorer: Features for Retrieving environmental data associated to a set of coordinates
   6. gCube Data Transfer Facilities
      1. Data Transfer Agent
   7. gCube Presentation Services
      1. Application Support Layer
      2. gCube Portal Engine
      3. ASL HTTP Front End
   8. gCube Infrastructure Tools
      1. SAM Tools
      2. Resource Manager Client
   9. INSPIRE Community Applications
   10. DRIVER Community Applications

1. Step by step guide
   1. Developing a gCube Component
      1. Developing a Service
      2. Profile Specification
      3. Software Archive Specification
   2. Portlet Development
      1. Developing gCube Portlets Guide
      2. Adding a Quick tour guide to your portlet
      3. GCube Widgets Library - General guidelines about Portlet StyleSheets
      4. GCube Portlets common icon set
      5. Inter Portlet Subscription/Notification Mechanism (Client side)
      6. Building your gCube Portlet in ETICS
   3. Security
      1. Security Model
      2. How To Configure Service Security
      3. Common Security Troubleshooting
      4. How to use VOMS api library
2. References
3. Glossary
4. Lexical Convention