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Mastering Microsoft Forefront UAG 2010 Customization

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Mastering Microsoft Forefront UAG 2010 Customization

Overview of this book

While UAG is built to integrate with many environments and publish dozens of application types, many organizations require a certain level of customization to meet their needs. With this book in hand, you will be equipped to deal with these types of customization scenarios, and you will be confident in using such workarounds without hassle and trial and error. Written by some of the leading experts on UAG, "Mastering Microsoft Forefront UAG 2010 Customization" covers the most complex and challenging options for customizing UAG in a way that is friendly and easy to follow. It walks you through various customization tasks, including explanations and code samples, as well as creative ideas for troubleshooting your work. Until now, only a few of the extensions to UAG's services have been publicly available, and most were only known to a select few. Now, this can include you! Throughout this book, you will tackle how to change the system's look-and-feel, deal with advanced authentication schemes and write special functions that need to be executed as part of the client interaction. With "Mastering Microsoft Forefront UAG 2010 Customization", you too can learn how to customize various aspects of UAG's functionality to enhance your organization or customers' experience.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Mastering Microsoft Forefront UAG 2010 Customization
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Preface

Chapter 4. The Application Wrapper and SRA

One of UAG's key functionalities is its ability to perform on-the-fly manipulation of data that it relays between a client and backend applications servers. So consider this as something along the lines of a big search-and-replace engine. However, what does this mean in practice? Well, technically speaking, this could serve many different purposes and some of those we'll touch on in this chapter, but in general publishing terms, this functionality actually plays a core role in UAG's operation. The bottom line is that if UAG can parse it, then there's a very good chance of changing it. And to put that into context, this is fundamentally what provides the application-specific awareness that is required to make UAG's entire concept possible. Customizing this process can then help extend this further by allowing you to apply your own optimizations and functionality to individual applications, and in some circumstances, even help solve challengingly...