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Preface

This guide contains information for programmers who need to develop custom SDL Contenta applications and tools.

Use this guide with the online API reference documentation to design, implement, and verify standalone applications or tools for the SDL Contenta Explorer or SDL Contenta Web interfaces, and to integrate SDL Contenta with other applications.

The SDL Contenta API Programmer's Guide is part of a documentation set which includes:
  • Example program source files written in Perl and Java
  • HTML Help files for the Java scripts
  • Sample XML, DTD, and Map files that can be used for Dynamic Import
  • A sample Contenta database, apiguide

HMTL Help reference files for COM are delivered with the SDL Contenta software and can be accessed on your SDL Contenta Windows system by double-clicking on the comapi_start.html file in the Contenta home/ Help folder for information about the COM API.

HMTL Help reference files for JAVA are delivered with the SDL Contenta software and can be accessed on your SDL Contenta Windows system by double-clicking on the index_api.html file in the Contenta home/ Help folder for information about the JAVA API.