Portal Server Content Management

Portal Server content management system (CMS) provides a hierarchical content store that supports structured and unstructured content, images, content templates, and versions. The content management system uses the JSR 170: Content Repository for Java Technology API specification, which provides a standard way for server-based applications to interact with content repositories.

How Portal Server users can use the content management system is based on their roles.

Portal Server administrators can use content management to create, edit, delete, and lock the following:

• Content categories

• Content versions

• Organize content into different categories for ease of management

Portal Server developers can use content management to do the following:

• Use CMS tag libraries and API to interactive with the content management system

• Use Portal Pack for NetBeans^TM IDE

Portal Server end users can use content management to perform the following tasks:

• Create and edit content

• Lock content versions

• Create, based on their roles, and assign templates to content

• Publish content by completing user tasks that are predefined in workflow definitions (Simple API for Workflow and Sun Java Composite Application Platform Suite must be available)

• Search for content

The content management systems provides portlets that do the following:

• Manage categories and content types with templates

• Manage contents for a content type

Portal Server provides sample CMS portlets that illustrate the use of OCM (object content mapping) functions for managing unstructured content, for managing structured content with predefined metadata, and for creating custom content types and contents. The samples available include the following portlets:

• Document Management Portlet that showcases how unstructured content is managed

• Article Management Portlet that showcases how structured content is managed

The sample CMS portlets use the Apache JackRabbit implementation of the JSR 170 specification.