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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

8.1 Documentum Application Builder


Documentum Application Installer (DAI), used for deploying Documentum DocApps, is also installed along with DAB installer if the user chooses the option correctly. Using a simple user interface, we can create different kinds of Documentum objects in our own custom DocApps, without worrying about details like Docbase connections and sessions.

Note that DAB need not be installed on the Content Server host. It can be installed on a separate desktop as long as the DocBroker connectivity for the Docbase in question is available.

Figure 8.1 shows Web Publisher objects in the WebPublisher DocApp we installed in our custom Docbase.

8.1: WebPublisher DocApp as seen in Documentum Application Builder

8.1.1 Prerequisites

Figure 8.2 specifies some of the prerequisites for installing Documentum Application Builder 5.2.5 SP2 and its associated components:

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Hardware

90 MB hard disk space, 256 MB RAM, and 450 MHz CPU.

Content Server

Content Server, DocBroker...