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In XperienCentral, the platform and the components are separated. This allows for a vigorous platform that gives developers the opportunity to easily build solutions or new products on top of the XperienCentral platform. XperienCentral separates the platform and components for the following reasons:
- With a platform, there There is a much clearer distinction between customization and the standard product. By introducing the use of explicit APIs, with which functionalities can be added to the basic platform, the procedure for developers is much clearer. Among other things, this leads to a much more flexible and predictable method of executing updates and migrations than before.
- Partners who want to create their own product with XperienCentral as an OEM product underneath can also do this with the platform strategy.
- With this platform not only partners, but also GX Software itself can easily realize new solutions or products.
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The origin of plugins in XperienCentral lies in the identical functionality available in GX WebManager 9 which was known as a Web WebManager Component Bundle, referred to using the abbreviation "WCB". Because of this legacy, you will come across the string "WCBwcb" in functions, methods, properties and parameters in the source code and Java classes exposed by XperienCentral for developing plugins. The phased-out term "WCB" is identical to the term "plugin" used in all XperienCentral documentation.
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In XperienCentral, a component is a small piece of software that serves provides a particular service. This may be a GUI component, but can also be a headless service. Each component has is of a particular component type which identifies the properties and logic the component servesprovides. In XperienCentral the possible component types are:
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Multiple plugins can be combined into a WCA, a WebManager Component Archive. This is in particular particularly useful for system administrators : because it is a set of plugins that can be uploaded into an XperienCentral installation with only in a single update.
Plugin Certification
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