CentraSite 10.5 | CentraSite Developer's Guide | Customizing CentraSite | Customization of CentraSite Business UI
 
Customization of CentraSite Business UI
 
CentraSite Business UI Configuration Files
Customizing CentraSite Login Page
Customizing CentraSite Welcome Page
Customizing CentraSite Content Page
Customizing Design Time Policies
This section describes the CentraSite Business UI's pluggable architecture. You can extend CentraSite Business UI's functionality by adding your own features with appropriate widgets and JavaScripts. The CentraSite Business UI extension framework is a plug-in to a core infrastructure, in other words, the core infrastructure provides extension points where CentraSite Business UI extension framework is plugged in. The core infrastructure comprises of the CentraSite Business UI built on top of the Google Web Toolkit (GWT), which provides the widget classes for CentraSite.
The following figure illustrates the pluggable architecture:
Extensions are implemented as widgets. The points in the code at which extensions can be added are called extension points. CentraSite Business UI offers extension points that allow you to implement or extend the following features:
*Provide an alternative login screen.
*Provide an alternative screen for requesting an account.
*Extend the search dialog by additional search conditions.
*Replace the standard asset details view.
*Extend the set of available actions in the asset's details page.