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...