Content Management Guide

About This Book

Purpose

This book shows how to use the Content Management subsystem of SilverStream eXtend Director.

Audience

This book is for anyone who creates, manages, and accesses content in the Content Management subsystem, whether via the Content Management API or the Portal Management Console (PMC).

Prerequisites

This book assumes you are familiar with the Java programming language, the Internet, and Web applications.

Learning materials on these topics are readily available from a variety of public and commercial sources.

Organization

Here's a summary of what you'll find in this book:

Chapter	Description
Concepts
About the Content Management Subsystem	Presents an introduction to Content Management subsystem concepts such as documents, infrastructure, and version control
Content Management API	Describes how to use the programming interface to the Content Management subsystem
Managing Tasks in the Content Management Subsystem	Explains how tasks work in the Content Management subsystem and describes how to write and implement a custom task
Using WebDAV Clients with Director for Collaborative Authoring	Describes the Director WebDAV subsystem, which provides support for the Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) communications protocol
Building Your Own WebDAV Client	Describes an API provided with the Director WebDAV service for developing a custom WebDAV client
Tools
Portal Management Console	Describes how to manage content for your Director application using the Portal Management Console (PMC)
Reference
Content Management Caching	Describes caching behavior in the Content Management subsystem
Content Management Tag Library	Provides reference documentation for the tags in the Content Management subsystem tag library (ContentMgmtTag.jar)
XML Reference	Provides reference documentation for DTDs and other XML configuration information for the Content Management subsystem

Content Management Guide