• Developer Community:
• Register for Build-a-Bot: Secure Event Service (SES)
  
• View On-Demand: BDK Extension Service & Symphony Groups
• Symphony Developer Forum

• Product Updates:
• BDK Extension Service
  
• Secure Events Service (SES)

• Training and Documentation:
• Symphony Developer Training Center

• Partner News:
• Symphony Generator
• Coming soon: Application Developer Kit (ADK) & UI Toolkit
  

Webinar: Introducing Secure Event Service (SES)

Join our upcoming Build-a-Bot session on March 30th, where we introduce the Secure Event Service (SES). By leveraging SES, developers and partners only need to register their integration once with a cloud SES Gateway service. Once registered, integrations can publish events across Symphony Pods.

Earlier this month we showcased the BDK Extension Service & Symphony Groups in action with live demos of their respective capabilities. If you missed it, watch it here.

Since last year we've seen a 60% increase in the number of registered developers and the number of certified developers has doubled. 

There are currently:

• 2.4K Production Bots on Symphony (25% increase)
• 175 Million Messages Sent by Bots (33% increase)
• 390 Million Messages Read by Bots (32% increase)

Symphony is excited to announce the new Bot Developer Kit (BDK) Extension Service. The BDK Extension Service offers a simple and modular plugin mechanism for the BDK Core. This opens the door for third-party modules to extend BDK’s capabilities while improving memory consumption.

This month we’re introducing the Secure Event Service (SES). As developers build integrations on Symphony, there has always been a demand to provide a standardized notification method for sending events across Symphony Pod’s.
Events can include the ability to ‘Create and manage a chat room’ and ‘Send and receive messages’. As a Symphony Pod Administrator you have control over which Integrations are available to your Pod, but also the granular controls on the events that can be received by your Pod.

Whether you are just starting out building bots on Symphony or have been developing for a while, the Developer Training Center is a great resource for structured learning and accreditation of your knowledge.



The Fundamentals course explains all the important Symphony concepts, from what are bots & apps, to architecture, security and the developer journey. These topics are useful even for the non-developer audience like project managers or technical leads within Symphony practice or project teams. By answering some conceptual questions, you will be awarded an Associate badge.

Following completion of the Fundamentals course, the BDK courses on Java and Python unlock. These courses come with complete coding examples and live demos to put concepts into practice. Pick your language of choice to begin gaining insights into the capabilities that the BDK provides to bot developers in accelerating the development process. At the end of either course, you will be invited to take a certification exam if you wish and be awarded the respective Bot Developer badge.

To get started with the Developer Training Center, simply sign up at developers.symphony.com and click the Training Center link on the top navigation bar.

Symphony continues to increase its engagement with FINOS, its Open Source partner.

Symphony Generator

Symphony recently contributed its Yeoman based generator to the FINOS foundation to help developers bootstrap their Symphony-based project. With a simple command “yo symphony“ and after answering a few configuration questions, you can generate a ready-to-use Bot scaffold in either Java or Python, as well as a generic Bot managing WDK based workflows. Symphony Generator is the best way to start your Bot project the right way!
Now open for contribution: https://github.com/finos/generator-symphony 


Coming soon: Application Developer Kit (ADK) & UI Toolkit

A lot of developers from the community requested a modern way to create Symphony applications. We are super excited to announce the Application Developer Kit (ADK), a TypeScript based framework to create apps in no time, with just a few lines of code. To make these apps sophisticated, appealing and consistent with the user interface of Symphony itself in terms of design and (L&F, theming), the ADK will come with a UI Toolkit, a full-featured library of UI components pre-defined for the Symphony environment. As part of the Symphony developer toolset, both ADK and UI Toolkit will be open sourced to the FINOS foundation.