Java access to non Alfresco DMS

[fstar]

We implemented a Java search application to search a non Alfresco DMS. The results should be displayed in Share.

Can somebody propose how to call the Java search application within share and how to display the results?

We were looking for examples to create Java based webscripts in Share, but we are not the only ones and did not find anything.

Are there better solutions? Expose the Java search program as webservice and call it from Share? But how would we display the Java result objects?

Thank,
Frank

[mrogers]

Although you can probably "kludge" something into Share, Share is view tier software so the way it works is to call data access webscripts from the the repo tier.    The repo tier web scripts are the ones that provide the data.

One solution would be to provide a web script interface to your search program then call it from Share.   Or add a repo tier web script that access your external DMS.

[fstar]

Thanks a lot! Can you also propose an example? Or maybe give a hint which classes or webscript packages to use?