.. _vonk_facade:

Firely Server Facade
====================

.. note::

  The features described on this page are available in the following :ref:`Firely Server editions <vonk_overview>`:

  * Firely Scale - 🌍 / 🇺🇸
  * Firely CMS Compliance - 🇺🇸

Firely Server Facade is a means to use the Firely Server implementation of the FHIR RESTful API on top of an existing repository.
This repository may be a relational database, a nosql database or even another web api.

.. image:: ../images/FirelyFacade.png
  :align: right
  :width: 250px
  :alt: Illustration of Firely server


This chapter details the two options for setting up a Firely Server Facade, and provides you with an exercise to get
some hands-on experience with a Facade solution.


.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1
   :titlesonly:

   setup
   facadestart
   prerequisites
   projectsetup
   databasemodel
   enablesearch_1
   Next search step <enablesearch_2>
   finalizesearch
   debugging
   finalizeproject
   enablechange_1