Direct service calls in java-driven components

Hello all,
I am new to WebCenter Content customization and have run into a problem I have trouble with solving correctly.
Context
I try to concentrate as much logic in ordinary java (and perhaps an ini or yaml file) and avoid the more unknown .hda and the customized .htm files.
I experimented with creating a service class, service handler and filter. No biggies there apart from the difficult and slow debugging.
The long list of UCM/URM services and complexity of these services themselves made me inclined to write a different API to make UCM/URM programming fun; e.g. an adapter to simplify and abstract away from the standard service API. Think in terms of "checkin(...args...)" so I can rely on the IDE hints to develop faster.
Infrastructure should be either Linux or Windows Server.
Problem
I have not been able to call UCM/URM services directly from java in UCM/URM components yet.
Question
What is the best way to go about this?
Perhaps I'm reinventing the wheel, if so please enlighten me. To me it feels what I'm trying to do should be a basic feature but for now I've missed it completely. If it's not as simple as that I'm wondering why.
I did find documentation on IdcCommand which relies heavily on .hda, a lengthy installation and even duplicating intradoc.cfg which is bound to give someone a headache at some point.
I also read some documentation on UCPM API for JavaEE, but I'm not using JavaEE.
If anyone knows what I've been missing out of, your help is much appreciated!
Edited by: Niels Krijger on Sep 18, 2012 4:58 AM
Edited by: Niels Krijger on Sep 18, 2012 5:03 AM

Thank you! RIDC appears to be exactly what I was looking for.
I also discovered I've been looking at the wrong documentation. I was looking in:
Oracle® Fusion Middleware Developer's Guide for Content Server
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E14571_01/doc.1111/e10807/toc.htm
instead of
Oracle® WebCenter Content Developer's Guide for Content Server
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23943_01/doc.1111/e10807/toc.htm
While the first mentions RIDC very briefly (I didn't think much of it then) the latter is much more helpful.
Thank you very much.

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