Overview of Integration Methods

6 Integrating Oracle UCM with Enterprise Applications 6-1 6 Integrating Oracle UCM with Enterprise Applications This chapter describes how to integrate Oracle Universal Content Management Oracle UCM with enterprise applications. This chapter includes the following sections: ■ Section 6.1, Overview of Integration Methods ■ Section 6.2, JSP Integration ■ Section 6.3, Java 2 Enterprise Edition Integration J2EE ■ Section 6.4, Web Services

6.1 Overview of Integration Methods

Several easy, flexible methods are available for integrating Oracle Content Server with enterprise applications such as application servers, catalog solutions, personalization applications, and enterprise portals, and client-side software. Oracle Content Server not only serves as a content management solution for content-centric web sites, but also provides a scalable content management infrastructure that supports multiple enterprise applications in many diverse environments and platforms. The integration solutions enable other enterprise applications to access content managed by the content management system and provides these applications with critical content management capabilities such as full-text and metadata searching, library services, workflow, subscription notifications and content conversion capabilities through a wide array of integration methods. In general, these integration methodologies serve to translate or pass methods and associated parameters with the goal of executing Oracle Content Server services. The various Oracle Content Server services are the window for accessing the content and content management functions within Oracle Universal Content Management. For example, one simple integration option is to reference content that is managed within Oracle UCM by persistent URL. Other integration options are to use the Java API, the Microsoft Component Object Model COM interface, or the ActiveX control. The focus of this chapter is to present the available integration options, suggest an approach, like IdcCommand X, or persistent URL, or SOAP, and provide information about where to get the detailed documentation on that approach. Specifically, this chapter provides basic conceptual information about the integration of Oracle Universal Content Management within network system environments using various protocols, interfaces, and mapping services. 6-2 Oracle Fusion Middleware Developers Guide for Oracle Universal Content Management For information about using the IdcCommand utility to access Oracle Content Server services from other applications, see Chapter 7, Using the IdcCommand Utility to Access Services. For information about the COM interface, see Chapter 8, Using the COM API for Integration. For information about Remote Intradoc Client RIDC integration, see Chapter 9, Using Remote Intradoc Client RIDC.

6.2 JSP Integration