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Access Plug-In Objects and Operations by Using a Web View
With Web views, you can run workflows on objects from the Orchestrator inventory from a Web browser
instead of from the Orchestrator client.
The solar system example includes a Web view that you can use to access the objects and workflows of the
solar system plug-in from a Web browser.
Prerequisites
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Install the solar system plug-in in the Orchestrator server.
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Start the Orchestrator client.
Procedure
1 Click Web views in the Orchestrator client.
2 Right-click the SolarSystem Web view and select Publish.
3 Open a browser and go to http://
orchestrator_server
:8280.
In the URL, orchestrator_server is the DNS name or IP address of the Orchestrator server, and 8280 is the
default port number where Orchestrator publishes Web views.
4 On the Orchestrator home page, click Web View List.
5 Click Solar System.
6 Log in using your Orchestrator user name and password.
7 Click the buttons in the Web view to run workflows on the objects in the solar system application.
You can run workflows to add a planet to the Sun, modify, split, or remove planets from a Web browser. You
can examine the structure and files of the solar system Web view in the source files of the solar system plug-
in or exporting the Web view to a directory in Web views in the Orchestrator client.
What to do next
You can adapt the classes of the solar system application and the plug-in implementation to experiment with
plug-in development. You can use the solar system scripting API to develop more workflows that perform
operations in the solar system application.
Orchestrator Plug-In API Reference
The Orchestrator plug-in API defines Java interfaces and classes to implement and extend when you develop
the IPluginAdaptor and IPluginFactory implementations to create a plug-in.
All classes are contained in the ch.dunes.vso.sdk.api package, unless stated otherwise.
IAop Interface
The IAop interface provides methods to obtain and set properties on objects in the plugged-in technology.
public interface IAop
The IAop interface defines the following methods:
vCenter Orchestrator Developer's Guide
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