This week we finished work on the initial prototype of our file upload application. It allows users to upload many files at once and along with each file, it tracks and uploads their corresponding metadata. Metadata is stored in a separate .json type file. In creating this application, we learned a lot about the process of using the ECM API and integrating it with custom applications. We created the application using the Python programming language, but the API can theoretically be used with any programming language.

The custom application that we made will also work as the grounds for further development using the ECM API. We plan on testing the ECM’s security and integrity using API calls and simulated interactions on the browser. Also during the development process, we learned a lot about user authentication and application security that will hopefully enable us to ensure that our custom application is fully secure and meets Raytheon’s requirements.