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.
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...