Web application open platform interface (WOPI) server architecture and applications for distributed network computing environments

A system, comprising:

• a processor;
• a non-transitory computer-readable medium;
• and
• stored instructions translatable by the processor for:
• receiving, from a user device, a request to open or create a document in an online application hosted by an online application server, the document managed or to be managed by an information management (IM) server operating in an enterprise computing environment;
• performing a discovery process to learn from the IM server operating in the enterprise computing environment a set of parameters needed to open or create the document in the online application hosted by the online application server;
• providing the set of parameters learned from the IM server operating in the enterprise computing environment to the online application server;
• receiving, from the online application server, a call with the set of parameters requesting the document from the IM server operating in the enterprise computing environment;
• communicating the call from the online application server to the IM server operating in the enterprise computing environment, wherein the IM server fetches or creates the document in the enterprise computing environment, makes a copy of the document, and communicates the copy of the document to the system;
• receiving the copy of the document from the IM server operating in the enterprise computing environment;
• and
• caching the copy of the document for the online application server in a local data storage, wherein the online application server operates to display the copy of the document on the user device via the online application hosted by the online application server.

A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions translatable by a processor of an interface server for:

• receiving, from a user device, a request to open or create a document in an online application hosted by an online application server, the document managed or to be managed by an information management (IM) server operating in an enterprise computing environment;
• performing a discovery process to learn from the IM server operating in the enterprise computing environment a set of parameters needed to open or create the document in the online application hosted by the online application server;
• providing the set of parameters learned from the IM server operating in the enterprise computing environment to the online application server;
• receiving, from the online application server, a call with the set of parameters requesting the document from the IM server operating in the enterprise computing environment;
• communicating the call from the online application server to the IM server operating in the enterprise computing environment, wherein the IM server fetches or creates the document in the enterprise computing environment, makes a copy of the document, and communicates the copy of the document to the interface server;
• receiving the copy of the document from the IM server operating in the enterprise computing environment;
• and
• caching the copy of the document for the online application server in a local data storage, wherein the online application server operates to display the copy of the document on the user device via the online application hosted by the online application server.