Introduction
CentraSite Business UI offers a pluggable architecture that allows you to extend the standard graphical interface by adding your own widgets.
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 the CentraSite.
The pluggable architecture is illustrated in the following diagram:
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 an asset's details page.
The available extension points are described in the section
Extension Points for Customizing Content
Pages below.
