Overview of Web SDK

In this section, we introduce MicroStrategy web architecture, plugin architecture, deploying SDK, and configuring Web Customization Editor (WCE) both in Linux and in Windows, and discuss some best practices for customizations and upgrades.

MicroStrategy Web architecture

The layers that make up the MicroStrategy Web application are as follows:

  • XML API layer
  • Web Objects layer
  • Web Beans layer
  • Web Transforms layer
  • Application Objects layer
  • Presentation layer

Application programming interface (API) is an interface that enables the user to access information from other applications, and allows the user to integrate services to their own applications. A Web Bean is a Java class that contains business logic and accepts no parameters, which ...

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