[opencms-dev] Developing a module that sends data via webservices

[Neil Gandhi]

Greetings,

I'm currently trying to develop a module for use within OpenCms that sends files via RESTful operations to another server.

The vision of this module is to basically select a file or folder, add some metadata, then send the files and metadata off for remote processing. I was hoping to use the contextual menus in the explorer view to kick off this whole process.

Unfortunately, much of the documentation I've found thus far talks about creating content in OpenCms and not really extending core functionality. I also read a book over the weekend: OpenCms 7 Development: Extending and customizing OpenCms through its Java API by Dan Liliedahl. I found it useful in teaching how to create a module, but not specifically the type of module I'm looking to create.

My questions are the following:
	* Is there any documentation available online that speaks to extending functionality in this sort of way?
	* Are there any projects available (open source) that I can look at that might help?
	* Can anyone point me to functionality within OpenCms that could help me get started?

I really appreciate any help that anyone can give me. Please let me know if you have any questions that could help me clarify what I need help with.

Thank you very much in advance,

Neil Gandhi