Chances are you have seen Fluent Interface in action. I’ve seen it without realizing what they were until I stumbled across Martin Fowler’s blog. The aim is simple – to provide for a more readable code. SharePoint APISeveral years ago, I wrote a SharePoint API in Java to interact with its List Soap Service. This soap service had a feature to query the target list using Collaborative Application Markup Language (CAML). Here’s an example of CAML query to filter the task list where the TaskName is “Foo Bar” and the Status is “In Progress”. As part of this SharePoint API,…
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Every once in a while, an email thread is started by an individual wanting to know how to connect to SharePoint web services from java. The first time I came across this challenge was back in 2007 when I was building a Proof-of-Concept (PoC) workflow system for the business group I was supporting. One of the key requirements of this system was to retain an audit trail of all emails and documents associated with a given workflow. To put it bluntly, SharePoint wasn’t my first choice. I was very much aware of other document management systems which would have been a better…