Build a Documentum Application

Customize Existing Clients:

Build Custom Applications:

Web Applications

Documentum provides several customizable Web clients for Web-based content management. Using these clients, users can perform all standard content management functionality. Developers can use these clients as the starting point for application development, they also have the option of building custom Web-based applications using Documentum's powerful and flexible API.

Customizing Existing Clients

Currently Documentum has two categories of Web clients, those based on the Rightsite platform and those based on the Documentum Web Development Kit (WDK). The WDK-based clients include Documentum Webtop, a comprehensive content management client that offers an easy to configure user interface and fully customizable behavior. WDK-based versions of Webpublisher, Documentum Administrator and Team Manager will be released in early 2003.

The original Documentum Intranet Client applications and iTeam, (the predecessor to Team Manager), were developed using RightSite technology. RightSite is a powerful and well-trusted solution and is the basis for many successful deployments, however it is a proprietary development environment and will eventually be phased out as our customer base migrates to WDK.

WDK-based clients provide developers with the best customization option as they offer a more open, industry-standard and flexible development environment.

Build Custom Applications

Even though all of the Documentum Web clients are highly configurable and customizable, there are times when custom application development is the best solution. Documentum's development environment offers the programmer many options to build custom Web-based applications, please see the Build Custom Applications node for details.