24.5 Summary

The Web Development Kit (WDK in short) is a framework provided by Documentum, consisting of reusable components to build and deploy J2EE web applications for connecting with Documentum Content Server.

At the beginning of the chapter, we discussed that WDK allows one to perform simple configurations and customizations to WDK framework components.

Configurations involve changes in XML configuration files and JSP pages to alter the labels/texts and to perform some other simple configuration changes.

Customizations on the other hand involve changes in behavior Java classes to override and extend default functionality provided by the WDK framework.

We then briefly looked at the WDK directory structure to understand its contained folders and files.

We also saw the WDK application hierarchy chain, in which each application layer extends from the application layer above it in the hierarchy. The chain is as follows—WDK, Webcomponent, Webtop, Digital Asset Manager, Web Publisher, and Custom...