web services (SOAP, xmlrpc, or REST)

[peden]

I have heard from the Scalix Live Tuesdays webinar that SOAP access is available to the scalix server.

Can I get more information on it and any documentation on the functions available?

[florian]

Scalix uses SOAP calls between Scalix Web Access and the Scalix SWA server as well as between SAC and the Ubermanager Admin server and Ubermanager and the RES agent.

However, as of today, these are not documented and internal.

We are looking into publishing the API specs for those going forward ("Scalix SDK") as well a providing other webservices-based APIs. Some of the technologies you're mentioning are under evaluation for the next releasend data access (not SOAP...)

-- f.

[peden]

OK Thanks.

I can't wait to see what is available.

[florian]

what exactly are you planning to do with this, if i may ask? :-)

-- florian.

[peden]

Hmmm. The possibilities...

I was actually going to make that decision after finding out what is available, but in a perfect world and all functionality is available I would probably write some programs to do things like:

- remove a particular spam email from everyone's mailbox
- do a custom, brick-level backup/restore solution integrated with workflow
- automate commonly done administrator tasks (this may be done almost as easily with the cli)
- add a calendar item to everyone's calendar
- tie together workflow and email
- do things I would have done with the cli, but from a different server (RPC stuff)
- any number of other things I haven't thought of yet. That's what I love about web services, they allow creating things pretty easily and as fast as I can think of them (almost ;-).