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Development Toolkit Overview (5.0)

Development Toolkit Overview (5.0)

With the Development Toolkit you can build the following plugins for the Usage Engine Platform:

  • Agent Plugins - for creating customized agents

  • APL Plugins - for creating customized APL functions

  • Event Plugins - for creating customized events

  • Notifier Plugins - for creating customized notifiers

  • UDR Plugins - for creating customized UDRs

  • Ultra Plugins - for creating customized decoders

  • Workflow Service Plugins - for creating customized workflow services

DTK Contents

The Development Toolkit contains:

  • DTK classes in devkit.jar

  • Javadoc for DTK classes

  • Example source code

  • DTK user's guide

Packages

The following packages are available for com.digitalroute.devkit:

Package

Description

Package

Description

apl

Provides support for creating APL plugin functions.

drudr

Used to create, manipulate, and view UDR descriptions within the system.

drui

Provides user interface component classes.

event

Provides the definition of an event and the event and target used in Event Notification configurations.

exception

Provides exception classes.

ultra

Contains Ultra field plugin support classes.

wf

Contains all workflow-related functionalities, for example, agent development, services, and MIM usage.

wf.udr

Contains classes for the specific FNTUDR and MultiForwardingUDR.

storable

Provides interfaces defining a Usage Engine storable.

storable.upgrade

Provides for configuration upgrade.

misc

Contains miscellaneous classes, for example, environment interfaces used by the plugins to call Usage Engine.

doc

Contains classes with support for adding online user documentation.

Filesystem Structure

When DTK is installed according to the instructions in Installation and Setup (5.0), the following files and folders are available in the <devkit_dir> folder:

Item

Description

Item

Description

examples

Contains source code for the reference implementations shipped with DTK. The examples can be used as a base for developing custom-made plugins.

javadoc

Contains the DTK Javadoc including documentation of all DTK classes and interfaces.

javadoc-examples

Contains the plugin examples available in DTK Javadoc.

lib

Contains DTK library file(s) needed for building plugins.