KCM ComposerUI API demonstrates the functionality that supports the production of interactive documents on KCM Core. For example, KCM ComposerUI uses this API to access KCM Core from the web server. The KCM ComposerUI ASP.NET implementation uses a .NET version of the KCM ComposerUI API, whereas the J2EE implementation uses a Java implementation. There is also a KCM ComposerUI API using COM.

KCM ComposerUI API is an officially supported API. This means that it can be accessed directly without the use of one of the KCM ComposerUI implementations, such as a client application that accesses KCM Core directly from the workstation. In order to do this, an implementation of the KCM Core API (either Java, .NET or COM) is installed as part of the application. The application can translate the XForms XML retrieved through the API to an appropriate GUI representation.

This chapter describes the .NET, Java and COM implementations of the KCM ComposerUI API.