Programming with the application programming interfaces (APIs)

The application programming interfaces (APIs) are a set of classes that access and manipulate either local or remote data. This section describes the APIs, the implementation of multiple search functions, and Internet connectivity.

The APIs support:

• A common object model for data access.
• Multiple search and update across a heterogeneous combination of content servers.
• A flexible mechanism for using a combination of search engines; for example, the Content Manager text search feature.
• Workflow capability.
• Administration functions.
• Client/server implementation for Java™ applications.

Multistream support for the Java APIs is fully enabled for Windows servers only. AIX® servers, clients, and Windows clients cannot support multistreaming.

Note that IBM® Content Manager uses Call Level Interface (CLI) to connect to the DB2 Universal Database™, so you should either use all DB2® CLI or all embedded SQL, not mixture, for connection management or transaction management within your applications.