This document is for customers, consultants, or resellers who create or modify collaborations. Before you start, you should understand all the concepts explained in the manual Technical Introduction to IBM WebSphere InterChange Server.
To develop a collaboration, you should know standard programming concepts and practice. Also, collaboration development requires some Java(R) programming language knowledge. The collaboration API is based on the Java programming language, and it handles operations that most collaborations perform, such as manipulating business objects. If you have some programming background, the examples in this manual may help you to write simple collaborations, even if you do not know Java.