Is it possible to create an API for SharePoint?

i could not find any idea of how to implement API over the SharePoint(MOSS) framework. Could anyone give me a tip please?

What i want to do is create a client application to communicate with the SharePoint. wanting to implement something like following.

• Client send post request to API implemented on SharePoint, API receive a request and do the authentication and create a login cookie.
• Client keep communicating with API(with the login cookie), request necessary information and API returns it.

I c开发者_JAVA技巧ould not find anyway to hook a program... Is there anyway to hook a program or implement own authentication mechanism before SharePoint's own authentication is called?

Any alternative approach will be grateful. Thank you in advance.

Taiga

It sounds like you need the Web Services that ship as part of SharePoint. There is no need to re-invent the wheel by creating your own API.

If your own application runs on a machine with a local SharePoint installation then you can program against the SharePoint Object Model directly. Otherwise use the Web Services interface.

More on Google.

Here you find a fluent API for the SharePoint. FluentSP implements a modern fluent interface around the classic SharePoint 2010 API: http://www.parago.de/2011/09/fluentsp-the-fluent-sharepoint-api/