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Web Content Management with Documentum

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Web Content Management with Documentum

Overview of this book

One of the world leaders in Enterprise Content Management, the EMC Documentum family of applications helps you manage all types of content across multiple departments within a single repository. With the Web Content Management suite of applications, you can efficiently manage content and underlying processes for your Web properties, and ensures that they are responsive to business needs. To fully realize the power of this system can seem daunting, but this book will help you achieve that. With easy to follow examples, this book will take you the simplest and most straightforward route to success. Along the way, you will learn insights that only a seasoned professional would know. Packed with practical examples, you will get hands-on with the powerful features of Documentum to grow your skills and confidence. You will see tips and tricks to handle complexities of the system, and avoid the common errors that waste your time. From installing and getting started with Documentum, you will see how to design and develop Documentum applications, before rounding off with deployment.
Table of Contents (33 chapters)
Web Content Management with Documentum
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
Preface
Frequently Asked Questions and Answers

24.2 WDK Application Elements


Documentum WDK application framework is vast and comprises of several units such as components, actions, and controls. It is vital to understand each of these and their interrelations before you jump into configurations/customizations and developing your own custom components. Figure 24.3 loosely depicts how the various WDK application elements interact with each other within the confines of the WDK framework.

Figure 24.3: WDK application elements' relationships

Let us now discuss figure 24.3 in detail:

  • Components: These consist of JSP pages and the controls within these JSP pages. Components are reusable units in the WDK framework and perform Docbase operations such as check-out, check-in, export, etc. Each WDK component consists of an XML configuration file, an associated behavior Java class, and at least one JSP page.

  • Controls: These represent UI features (buttons or links) and provide standard web functionality and operations such as validations, formatting...