Common Desktop Environment: Programmer's Overview

5 Basic Application Integration


Contents of Chapter:
Basic Integration Features
Organization of Basic Integration Information
Basic Integration Tasks
Basic application integration is a set of highly recommended tasks you should perform. These tasks do not require modification of the source code for your application.

Basic integration does not involve extensive use of the desktop application program interface (API). Therefore, it does not provide other interaction with the desktop, such as drag and drop, session management, ToolTalk messaging, and programmatic access to the actions and data types database.


Basic Integration Features

Basic application integration provides these features for end users:

Basic integration provides these advantages to system administrators:


Organization of Basic Integration Information

Most of the tasks involved in basic integration are also performed by system administrators who are integrating an existing application into the desktop. Therefore, most basic integration documentation is located in the CDE Advanced User's and System Administrator's Guide .

The CDE Programmer's Guide contains a chapter on basic integration. Where appropriate, the chapter refers you to the information contained in the CDE Advanced User's and System Administrator's Guide . It also contains additional information specific to application programmers.


Basic Integration Tasks

These are the general tasks involved in basic integration:



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