Introduction
Welcome to the first milestone of the Fedora API Extensions (API-X) framework. This milestone is the first concrete implementation of API-X, and is accompanied by a set of evaluation tasks comprising a demo that showcases its current capabilities and serves as a basis for soliciting feedback from the community.
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The API-X framework positions itself as HTTP middleware in a repository ecosystem. It serves as a transparent mechanism to expose services that act on repository resources, and/or to mediate the interaction between a client and a repository resources vis à vis services. Existing ad hoc services may be seamlessly discovered and interacted with by clients; likewise, novel services may be authored and incorporated into the ecosystem. See The The demo includes services provided by Amherst College, and will demonstrate the capability of API-X to incorporate these services into the repository layer.
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