Content Cortex domains

The Content Cortex domain represents a logical grouping of physical resources and the Content Platform Engine servers that provide access to those resources. Each resource and server belong to only one domain. A server can access any resource in the domain, but cannot access any resource that lies outside of the domain.

The Content Cortex domain is associated with one or more Java™ Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) security policy domains. The Java EE domain is used to authenticate users and establish their group memberships. The identity and group membership of the user determine which Content Cortex domain objects the user can access.

A Content Cortex domain has the following characteristics:

• The servers in a Content Cortex domain are platform-independent and can be in separate Java EE domains.
• The database servers associated with the Content Cortex domain can be in a different domain.
• Content Platform Engine services are associated with the Content Cortex domain in which the services were originally created and cannot provide services to other Content Cortex domains.
• The user names that are used to log on to a client application and to gain access to the Content Cortex domain are provided by one of the supported application server authentication providers.