SharePoint as DataSource?

[tinnitus007]

Is it possible to define a SharePoint content store as a DataSource in roughly the same way I define a SQL DataSource?

Here's my goal:

From a SGWT page, present a textbox + a submit button, which passes the search terms to SharePoint, and then return the results to either...

Plan A) A native SharePoint results window, positioned by some ISC abstraction control (like I see documented for ActiveX or SVG components), or...

Plan B) ...as records to a native SGWT component like a ListGrid.

Your guidance appreciated, thanks.

[Isomorphic]

If there is a Java API to get SharePoint data, then yes, you should be able to write a custom DataSource that can return data from SharePoint.

We're not sure what would be involved with embedding it as a custom control, but presumably that would be Windows only, hence seems like a worse solution.

[dday]

SharePoint has a REST interface http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff798339.aspx I would use that with the data sources. The y actually use the ODATA specification for communication and there is a JS library for that. http://datajs.codeplex.com/documentation