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Overview

• Architecture Overview

UI development

This page contains articles about the inner workings of the UI. It is aimed at software developers that want to improve on existing features, implement extensions or just gain a general understanding (Upsell, Theming, Extension Points)

• UI development articles

Groupware Server customization

• How to make custom changes to existing plugins (Authentication plugin)
• Automatically delete users OX-Objects and OX-Folders
• Auto login, session handling, single sign on
  • Authentication and Sessionhandling white paper (EasyLogin)
  • Custom login masks
    • Open-Xchange servlet for external login masks

Programming Interfaces

• The HTTP API is used by the Open-Xchange GUI and various 3rd party applications. It consists mainly of messages in JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) sent over HTTP. Here is a general Introduction to the HTTP API.
• The WebDAV API is used by external clients to modify object on the OX Server. It based mainly on the webdav standard with some enhancements to handle OX objects.
• Provisioning API to access the Open-Xchange Admin Daemon
  • The RMI API is used for data provisioning of Contexts, Users, Groups and Resources as well as for configuring Databases, Filestores and OX Servers. It is currently split into two parts,
    • a core and
    • a hosting component.
  • The Open-Xchange CLT are shell scripts that simplify groupware and service administration
  • Create contexts/users with with Csv_import
  • Provisioning using SOAP
• The Oxmapi is a windows library for programmers needed to communicate with the OX server
• Open-Xchange Mail Abstraction Layer
• The Plugin API for extending the GUI is described in two documents: an overview and the reference
• UDPPush Open-Xchange PUSH Interface for Groupware Objects

Testing and QA

• Automated GUI Tests
• JMeter profile for performance tests

Translations

• Available Language Translations
• Translate Open-Xchange to your community language
• Translate Open-Xchange to supported language

Installation based on source code

• Download the sourcecode
• Eclipse Quick Install Guide

Integration

• Directory Integration Whitepaper