You can help automate library management by creating events for drafts, documents, folders, or the library. To customize the handling of these events, you must create and deploy a custom event handler. This topic describes the basic concepts of event handlers.

This topic shows you the event types that are compatible with each event source.

After the event handler is triggered, you can access the data by calling the events API. An event object is passed in when onEvent method is called.

Administrators can disable event handling for the entire server.

Use the OSGi console to install the event handler after it has been developed and enabled.

After declaring subscriptions for event handler, use events API to register the event handler in the bundle activator. For more information about the bundle activator, refer to OSGi documentation.

After implementing EventActionHandler, define the subscriptions to manage when the event handler is triggered. Adding Java annotations is an easy way to accomplish this task.

The event handler is a common OSGi bundle. Refer to OSGi documentation to learn more about creating a bundle. This topic focuses on the additional work needed to create an event handler once the OSGi bundle has been created.