Building Applications - eXist: A NoSQL Database and Application Development Platform - page 228

eXist also contains an extension module, for use from within your XQuery scripts for
working with the repository (see repo ). Most of the time, however, you will work
with the Package Repository through its user interface, the Package Manager
( Figure 9-3 ), which is available through the dashboard.
Figure 9-3. The eXist Package Manager
This whole packaging idea is based on the EXPath packaging system . This specifica‐
tion was designed to work across different XQuery implementations and is targeted
at managing extension libraries (including XQuery, Java, or XSLT code modules).
eXist extends this by adding a facility for the automatic deployment of entire applica‐
tions into the database.
eXist packages come in two categories:
Applications
An application is anything with a web interface. It will produce a tile on the
dashboard and will start when the user clicks the tile.