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Welcome to the ewp-reference-connector wiki!

These pages will describe the features available and the architecture of the reference connector.

Maven build

The reference connector has two Maven modules

<groupId>eu.erasmuswithoutpaper</groupId>
<artifactId>ewp-connector-api</artifactId>

and

<groupId>eu.erasmuswithoutpaper</groupId>
<artifactId>ewp-reference-connector</artifactId>

Connector API

This Maven module compiles the XSD files to Java classes. Use them for a Java API to access the information in responses/requests from the EWP network.

EWP Reference Connector

This module is a Java webapp which is a standalone EWP host in the network. This module uses the Connector Java API.

The EWP Reference Connector Architecture

The reference connector is built on JEE 8 with CDI and Eclipselink as the JPA Provider. It uses Derby as a in-memory database to keep state. In the default configuration, the state is lost when the server is rebooted.

Code structure

The code is divided into the different APIs

• Course - Courses API
• Discovery - The EWP Discovery API
• Echo - Echo API
• IIA - Inter-institutional Agreement API
• Imobility - Incoming mobility API
• Notification - For viewing the CNR
• Omobility - Outgoing mobility
• Organization - Organization API

Infrastructure

• Common - reusable parts for all APIs
• Security