aid: novell name: Novell description: >- Novell, Inc. was a Provo, Utah network-software company best known for NetWare, eDirectory, GroupWise and ZENworks. It was acquired by The Attachmate Group in 2011, folded into Micro Focus with the 2014 Attachmate acquisition, and passed to OpenText when OpenText bought Micro Focus in 2023. The Novell corporate brand is retired and novell.com is now an OpenText-operated redirector, but a large part of the Novell developer surface is still served on www.novell.com and is not merely archival: the Novell Developer Kit (NDK) A-Z index, the eDirectory developer kits (which now 301 to microfocus.com), and the GroupWise SDK documentation set published per release right up to GroupWise 25. Two callable API surfaces are documented there - the GroupWise Administration REST API (220 resource paths, 357 operations, served by the customer's own GroupWise Administration Service on port 9710) and the GroupWise Web Services SOAP protocol against the Post Office Agent (96 documented methods on port 7191). Both are customer-hosted, not SaaS: there is no Novell-operated endpoint, no key to obtain and no sign-up. No machine-readable contract is obtainable - a WSDL is referenced by name but shipped only inside SDK archives on hosts that no longer resolve, and the Admin API's WADL is generated at runtime on the customer's own server. The documentation outlived the distribution. image: https://www.novell.com/favicon.ico url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/novell/refs/heads/main/apis.yml x-type: company x-source: harvest:absent-parent specificationVersion: '0.21' position: Producing created: '2026-09-13' modified: '2026-09-13' tags: - Company - enterprise_software - collaboration - email - directory_services - identity - groupware - ldap - soap - legacy - self_hosted - endpoint_management apis: - aid: novell:groupwise-administration-rest-api name: GroupWise Administration REST API description: >- REST/JSON administration API for a GroupWise system, served by the GroupWise Administration Service that installs alongside the GroupWise agents. Introduced under the "Windermere" codename for GroupWise 2014. The published reference lists 220 resource paths and 357 operations (166 GET, 69 PUT, 68 POST, 54 DELETE) across nine groups - api, application, async, diagnostics, domains, node, object, prefs and system - covering domains, post offices, users, groups, resources, libraries, gateways, MTAs, POAs, LDAP servers, internet domains, move requests and restore areas. Requests and responses are available as application/json or application/xml. The service is customer-hosted; there is no Novell-operated endpoint. humanURL: https://www.novell.com/documentation/groupwise25/gwsdk_admin_rest_api/data/bookinfo.html baseURL: https://{server_address}:9710/gwadmin-service image: https://www.novell.com/favicon.ico tags: - collaboration - email - administration - rest - self_hosted properties: - type: Documentation url: https://www.novell.com/documentation/groupwise25/gwsdk_admin_rest_api/data/bookinfo.html - type: APIReference url: https://www.novell.com/documentation/developer/groupwise_sdk/gwsdk_gwadminweb/data/application.htm - type: DataModel url: data-model/novell-data-model.yml - aid: novell:groupwise-web-services-soap name: GroupWise Web Services (SOAP) description: >- Server-side SOAP protocol for reading and writing a GroupWise user's mailbox, spoken directly to the GroupWise Post Office Agent over HTTP/HTTPS. 96 documented methods defined in the methods.xsd schema, from loginRequest and getItemsRequest through createItemRequest, sendItemRequest, moveItemsRequest, purgeDeletedItemsRequest and restoreItemRequest, plus a companion GroupWise Web Services Events surface for mailbox event notification. Authentication is a plain-text user credential or a GroupWise Trusted Application name and key, returning a session key that every subsequent call carries. Customer-hosted: the endpoint is the POA, default port 7191. humanURL: https://www.novell.com/developer/ndk/groupwise/groupwise_web_service_(soap).html baseURL: https://{poa_address}:7191/soap image: https://www.novell.com/favicon.ico tags: - collaboration - email - calendar - soap - self_hosted properties: - type: Documentation url: https://www.novell.com/documentation/groupwise25/gwsdk_web_services/data/bktitle.html - type: APIReference url: https://www.novell.com/documentation/groupwise25/gwsdk_web_services/data/b8cg4px.html - type: ErrorCatalog url: errors/novell-error-codes.yml - aid: novell:dsml-for-edirectory-soap name: DSML for eDirectory (SOAP) description: >- DSML v2 for eDirectory ships a deployable Java web archive (.war) that exposes Novell eDirectory as a SOAP web service using DSML - the OASIS Directory Services Markup Language standard for representing directory information as XML. Customer-deployed inside a servlet container against a local eDirectory tree. The NDK page is still indexed on novell.com but now 301s to the Micro Focus eDirectory developer documentation; the last published build is novell-dsml-devel-2006.02.22 and every download link on the page 404s. humanURL: https://www.microfocus.com/documentation/edirectory-developer-documentation/dsml-for-edirectory-soap/ image: https://www.novell.com/favicon.ico tags: - directory_services - identity - ldap - soap - self_hosted properties: - type: Documentation url: https://www.microfocus.com/documentation/edirectory-developer-documentation/dsml-for-edirectory-soap/ maintainers: - FN: Kin Lane email: kin@apievangelist.com - FN: APIs.json email: info@apis.io common: - type: Website url: https://www.novell.com/ - type: DeveloperPortal url: https://www.novell.com/developer/ndk/ - type: Documentation url: https://www.novell.com/documentation/ - type: APIReference url: https://www.novell.com/documentation/developer/groupwise_sdk/ - type: Packages url: packages/novell-packages.yml - type: SDKs url: packages/novell-packages.yml - type: Authentication url: authentication/novell-authentication.yml - type: Conformance url: conformance/novell-conformance.yml - type: Conventions url: conventions/novell-conventions.yml - type: ErrorCatalog url: errors/novell-error-codes.yml - type: DataModel url: data-model/novell-data-model.yml - type: Lifecycle url: lifecycle/novell-lifecycle.yml - type: Deprecation url: https://www.microfocus.com/lifecycle/ - type: ChangeLog url: changelog/novell-changelog.yml - type: LLMsTxt url: llms/novell-llms.txt - type: Plans url: plans/novell-plans-pricing.yml - type: RateLimits url: rate-limits/novell-rate-limits.yml - type: DomainSecurity url: security/novell-domain-security.yml - type: VulnerabilityDisclosure url: security/novell-vulnerability-disclosure.yml - type: Security url: https://support.novell.com/security-alerts/index.html - type: GettingStarted url: https://www.novell.com/developer/ndk/groupwise/develop_to_groupwise.html x-enrichment: date: '2026-09-13' status: enriched artifacts_added: 14 pass: local-v3 x-coverage: state: covered reason: covered detail: >- Novell's brand is retired and novell.com is an OpenText-operated redirector, but the developer surface is genuinely readable and was profiled from it: the NDK A-Z index, the GroupWise SDK documentation set published per release up to GroupWise 25, a live vulnerability disclosure program, a 22-family error-code registry and two first-party client libraries on public registries. What does not exist is a machine-readable contract - the GroupWise SOAP WSDL is referenced by name but shipped only inside novell-gwsoap-devel-2013.01.15.zip on ftp://sdk.provo.novell.com, which no longer resolves, and the Administration REST API's WADL is generated at runtime on the customer's own server. evidence: - url: https://www.novell.com/developer/ndk/ status: 200 - url: https://www.novell.com/documentation/groupwise25/gwsdk_web_services/data/bktitle.html status: 200 - url: https://www.novell.com/documentation/developer/groupwise_sdk/gwsdk_gwadminweb/data/application.htm status: 200 - url: https://support.novell.com/security-alerts/index.html status: 200 - url: https://www.novell.com/openapi.json status: 404 - url: https://www.novell.com/developer/ndk/gwsoap/novell-gwsoap-devel-2013.01.15.zip status: 404 checked: '2026-09-13'