Documentation is organized by audience and purpose.

Included Documentation

For each version of the documentation, the following materials are published and included in the distribution:

Introduction

The Introduction contains basic info for getting started setting up and using DDF.

Core Concepts

Core Concepts contains high-level, non-technical overviews of the main features of DDF.

Quick Start

The Quick Start guide has instructions for getting a test/evaluation instance started quickly. NOTE: for a full, working installation, see Managing

Managing

The Managing section features how-to sections written for the people who will be maintaining instances of DDF. This section is further sub-divided into:

Installing: Setting up a new instance from start to finish
Configuring: Setting or updating the settings for an instance. Includes security and hardening instructions.
Running:
- Starting
- Monitoring: system health and metrics
- Data Management:

Using

The Using section contains how-to sections for User Interfaces.

Integrating

The Integrating documentation contains explanations and how-to sections for APIs used by Integrators to communicate with DDF.

Developing

The developing section contains explanations of Internal interfaces needed to extend functionality of existing components.

System Data Flow
Catalog Framework API
Developing Sources
Transformers
Plugins
Operations
Resources
Queries
Security Framework
Metrics
Action Framework
Migration API
Application Service API

How-to information on developing custom implementation

General Development Guidelines

Appendices

Reference sections to be linked to by the other sections:

Application Reference
Application Whitelists
Metadata Attributes
DDF Dependency List

Release Notes

View the Release Notes for current and past versions to see changes within versions and troubleshooting data.