Custom Integrations

Integrating with an external system typically involves creating an adapter that makes the external system look like a ComUnity application service. When integrating with external systems it helps to summarise the relevant properties of the ComUnity Platform.

• The platform has a resource-oriented view of the world with identifiable resources linked together where a standard and limited set of operations is valid on any resource.
• A stateless back-end
• Often, external systems don’t have the properties summarised above and so require some elaboration in order to understand the process of integrating them efficiently into the ComUnity ecosystem.