Web Store

[This is preliminary documentation and subject to change.]

Web Store is a database technology that you can use to store, share, and manage heterogeneous data, such as e-mail messages, Web pages, multimedia files, and Microsoft Office documents. The Web Store is organized much like a traditional file system, in a hierarchy of folders. Each folder within the Web Store can contain any number of items, including other folders. You can access items in the Web Store using many protocols and APIs, including the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and WebDAV (HTTP/WebDAV), Microsoft® ActiveX® Data Objects Version 2.5 (ADO), OLE DB Version 2.5, Collaboration Data Object for Exchange 2000 (CDOEX), the Messaging API (MAPI), through the file system, and using several other industry-standard wire protocols.

The following sections introduce you to the concepts and architecture of the Web Store technology:

• Introduction - An introduction to Web Store and what this technology has to offer you as the platform for your collaboration solutions.
• Web Store Access APIs and Protocols - Discusses the various network protocols and application programmer's interfaces you can use to access data you store in Web Store.
• Web Store Item Properties - Discusses item properties and how they are used for items in Web Store.
• Web Store Schema - Discusses the Web Store schema mechanism and what this mechanism has to offer your applications.
• Web Store SQL Searches - Discusses the Web Store search engine and how SQL search commands are structured and used.
• Web Store WebDAV Persisted Search Folders - Discusses the Persisted Search Folder feature of Web Store.
• Web Store Security - Discusses the security and access control features of Web Store.