Integrating SharePoint with a web application

Question

Is it possible to have a Java/J2EE web application integrate/communicate with SharePoint to load, search, and retrieve docs?

Answer 1

You can communicate with SharePoint from Java using the web services: http://www.developer.com/tech/article.php/3104621

• Uploading files to WSS: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1061826/upload-file-to-sharepoint-wss-3-0-with-webrequest-put
• Searching docs: /_vti_bin/Search.asmx
• Lists (can query a particular library): /vti_bin/Lists.asmx

Answer 2

Sharepoint exposes a lot of its functionality through web services. If you are familiar with working with web services, this could be the easiest way for you to work with Sharepoint. I found this site just now http://www.developer.com/tech/article.php/3104621 which shows some of the break down of web services available although the code is in VB. If you do additional searches on Sharepoint and Web Services, you should get more sites that can help you.

Answer 3

Agreed, web services are the way to go.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms479390.aspx

I've done some work on this, with Java, and it's pretty easy to get them talking.

Answer 4

You can use web services as others have suggested to integrate at the service level, this might be the best way.

There is however, the possibility to intergrate at the UI level using Web Service Remote Portlets. There is a WSRP Toolkit for Sharepoint:

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/12/05/announcing-the-wsrp-toolkit-for-sharepoint.aspx