Glue42 Notification Service
Overview
What is a notification?
A notification is an event important enough to be brought to the attention of a user.
A few contextual examples:
- an alert from an application for an automatic machine restart, or from a metrics monitoring tool for a system running hot;
- a trade order execution notification from an Order Management System;
- a workflow task assigned to a user or a group of users that can optionally need a response (e.g., a change of a client address);
- an activity that is forwarded/re-assigned to a user (e.g., handling a client call);
The Glue42 Notification Service (GNS) is an unopinionated architecture, a set of executables, APIs and specifications for delivering notifications directly to the desktop. It provides:
- A common data model for normalizing notifications, raised by applications.
- Consolidation of notifications from multiple backend and desktop servers and their customizable delivery to the user's desktop via the GNS Desktop Manager.
- Specification for GNS servers for passive (REST) and active (Interop, HTTP Push) publishing of notifications.
- Interop Publishing API for desktop GNS Servers.
- A set of GNS Servers:
- Outlook Mail Interop GNS Server (e.g., public folder messages, but may also be rule-based);
- Thomson Reuters Eikon News Interop GNS Server;
- Google Alerts Interop GNS Server;
- Interop Subscription API for desktop clients/subscribers (typically UIs);
- UIs for displaying notifications (toasts and lists) with customizable UX via Glue42 Routing;