IBM Content Manager OnDemand Web Enablement Kit overview

ODWEK provides a programming interface that can search for and retrieve documents from Content Manager OnDemand servers.

ODWEK allows users to access data that is stored in an IBM Content Manager OnDemand server with IBM Content Navigator or a user-written program. An application uses the Java APIs to verify permissions, manage hit lists, and return data. For example, ODWEK verifies that the user information is valid on the Content Manager OnDemand server, such as permission to access the server and data stored in an application group. After the user submits a search, the ODWEK Java API returns a list of the documents that match the query. The user selects a document to view and IBM Content Navigator or the user-written program sends the document to the browser.

The following figure illustrates how a workstation with a web browser accesses data stored in a Content Manager OnDemand server.

This image shows how data stored in Content Manager OnDemand is accessed over the Internet through ODWEK. — Figure 1. Accessing data stored in Content Manager OnDemand by using ODWEK

ODWEK can search for and retrieve documents from Content Manager OnDemand servers that are running any currently supported versions of Content Manager OnDemand.