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.
Novell publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Enterprise Software, Collaboration, Email, and Directory Services.
Novell’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, authentication, changelog, getting-started guide, and 16 more developer resources.
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REST/JSON administration API for a GroupWise system, served by the GroupWise Administration Service that installs alongside the GroupWise agents. Introduced under the "Windermer...
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 i...
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 ...
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
tags_raw:
- 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
tags_raw:
- collaboration
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- 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
tags_raw:
- collaboration
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- 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
tags_raw:
- 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
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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'
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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:
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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'
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