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Places to Start
By building plugins, you can add new features. This includes new widgets and other UI features, as well as back-end components such as web services or custom authentication providers. | You can build plugins that enhance the application with links to new functionality, additions to the admin console, and additions to the end user UI. | This introduction gives you the basics on building widgets -- views for displaying content on customizable pages. | |
This introduction gives you the basics on building macros -- tools to make it easier for people to add and format content through the content editor. | This high-level overview of application technologies provides links to more information about the pieces themselves. | Whether basic, in-between or advanced, themes customize the application's look and feel. |
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Spotlight Areas
Each of the following sets of topics focuses on a particular area of extension development. Click a link to view a list of topics as they're grouped by tags. Above the topic list, you'll be able to edit the focus by adding or removing tags to filter it.
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References
API reference. | This reference describes the elements and attributes that make up a plugin's configuration XML file. | This reference describes the elements and attributes through which you can can UI components to the application. You use the elements described here in a plugin.xml file. |
This document describes tables in the application database. | This document list the web services that the application exposes via REST, or Representational State Transfer. | If you're looking to use SOAP-style web services, this basic information can get you started. |
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About This Guide
It's a work in progress.
On this page (the one you're looking at), we're trying a few things. Scroll down to see our efforts to make it easier to find content. You can search, post a question, or just poke around. In "Places to Start," you'll find some of our intro topics. In "Spotlight Areas," we've put up links that take you to lists of topics collected by the tags we've used to categorize them ("struts," "security," "themes," and so on). See what you think.
So what's different?
Well, for one thing, we don't have a "developer blog" or a "developer chat." You'll still find blogs on Jivespace, of course, including on developer ideas. But we're streamlining things.
And yes, you'll still find documentation on the Jive Software web site. But consider that archived content (you wouldn't want version 2.0.9 developers to be left out, would you?). The latest developer stuff is here.
Where sample code lives.
It's not here. We've put up a public Subversion project. You can get sample code there (some of it pretty cool actually). Check it out.
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