What is the Sentinel Express SDK?

The Sentinel Software Development Kit (SDK) lets you create a custom Sentinel install package. For example:

sentinel sdk roles

  1. A developer from Acme Inc uses the Sentinel SDK installer to create a development environment they can use to create their own custom version of Sentinel. The development environment uses:

    • Apache Ant for building

    • Apache Ivy for dependency management. The development environment resolves to dependencies that are included in the Sentinel Express SDK package contained in ./repositories/opencloud-offline-mirror, such as Sentinel core components and libraries, and OpenCloud resource adaptor components and libraries.

  2. Acme developers use the Sentinel SDK to create their own version of Sentinel.

  3. The development environment generates a Sentinel install package that includes all the changes created by Acme Inc developers.

Note To get the latest Sentinel Express SDK package contact your support agent for details on downloading.

What can you use it for?

You use the Sentinel Express SDK to:

  • create your own features (this includes the feature as well as any provisioning elements in the Sentinel Element Manager)

  • create your own mappers

  • add your own extensions to the call detail records (CDRs) that Sentinel writes

  • add new session state fields

  • extend the promotions scripting language

  • add new or modify existing OCS drivers.

Tip See the Sentinel SDK for more information about building a customised Sentinel using the Sentinel Express SDK.
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