Glossary

In the context of this extension and oCIS in general, we are using the following terminology.

• System configuration
• e.g. service host names and ports
• Changes need to be propagated to other services
• Typically modified on the CLI

• Application level settings
• e.g. default language
• Can be modified at runtime without restarting the service

• User settings
• Subset of “Settings”
• e.g. preferred language of a user

• Collection of related settings
• Registered by an oCIS extension

• Manifestation of a setting for a specific user
• E.g. used for customization (at runtime) in ocis-web
• Can be queried and modified by other oCIS services