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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

3.13 Summary


In this chapter, we touched upon some of the advanced concepts in Documentum.

We discussed the DMCL (Documentum Client Library) as a client library serving as an RPC layer between clients and Content Server. DFC (Documentum Foundation Classes) on the other hand act as a wrapper over DMCL exposing APIs to perform basic content management functions. DFC consists of a set of Java interfaces and classes and has a built-in Business Objects Framework (BOF) that helps you create reusable business components by extending and customizing content management capabilities.

We went on to discuss the Documentum WDK (Web Development Kit), which serves as a framework consisting of several server-side reusable components, allowing us to rapidly develop and deploy web-based applications that need to talk to Content Server.

Webtop is a reference web-client implementation provided by Documentum built over WDK. Web Publisher is an extension to Webtop. It is a web browser-based application that provides...