Expose RESTful Web Services: Overview

Introduction

Goal

Expose Bloomreach Experience Manager's content and content management capabilities over RESTful web services.

Background

When integrating with a CMS application such as Bloomreach Experience Manager, RESTful web services are a sensible choice to access the content stored in its repository and the content management capabilities it provides. Bloomreach Experience Manager offers several different mechanisms to expose RESTful services, of which this page provides an overview.

Overview of Available Mechanisms

  • Content REST API
    This is a generic REST API running on top of the delivery tier, automatically exposing all published content in the content repository based on the document types.
  • Custom JAX-RS Services
    If the generic Content REST API does not meet your requirements, it is possible to create your own custom services using the delivery tier's support for JAX-RS. These services come in two flavors:
  • Repository JAX-RS services 
    These are used for exposing REST APIs to interact with CMS internal components such as repository-managed daemon modules.
  • Delivery API 
    The Delivery API exposes Experience manager functionality and the HST page model though JSON REST APIs, enabling seamless integration with SPA frameworks.

Features

  Provided by Page Context Channel Context Document Context Access Unpublished Content Customizable
Content REST API Delivery
no
yes
yes
no
no
Context-aware services Delivery
no
yes
yes
yes
yes
Plain JAX-RS services Delivery
no
yes
yes
yes
yes
Repository JAX-RS services Repository
no
no
no
no
yes
Delivery API Delivery
yes
yes
yes
yes
no
The Essentials setup application provides a REST Services Setup tool which enables easy setup of the Content REST API and custom plain JAX-RS services.
You may also be interested in the Content HAL API Services Plugin.
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