Preface

While Oracle Universal Content Management (Oracle UCM) is highly functional "out of the box," there are many ways to tailor it to your site requirements. This guide provides the background information necessary to customize your Oracle UCM instance.

Audience

This guide is intended for developers and administrators who want to customize Oracle UCM software to suit content management needs that are specific to their business or organization.

Document Organization

This guide includes the following sections:

• Chapter 1, "Introduction to Customizing Your Oracle UCM Instance," provides an introduction to the methods and tools you can use to customize Oracle UCM.

• Chapter 2, "Oracle UCM Architecture," describes the architecture of Oracle UCM and how that affects the customization you can make.

• Chapter 3, "Working with Standard, Server, and Custom Components," describes how to use components to modify or add functionality to Oracle Content Server.

• Chapter 4, "Changing the Look and Navigation of the Oracle Content Server Interface," defines the items you can adjust to change the look and navigation of the Oracle Content Server interface.

• Chapter 5, "Modifying System Functionality," describes how you can change the functionality of Oracle UCM settings, components, and configuration variables.

• Chapter 6, "Integrating Oracle UCM with Enterprise Applications," provides information about integrating Oracle Content Server with enterprise applications such as application servers, catalog solutions, and enterprise portals.

• Chapter 7, "Using the IdcCommand Utility to Access Services," provides information about using the IdcCommand utility to access Oracle Content Server services from other applications.

• Chapter 8, "Using the COM API for Integration," provides information about how Oracle Content Server utilizes a Component Object Model-based API, which provides the capability to call functionality from within a Microsoft Component Object Model (COM) environment.

• Chapter 9, "Using Remote Intradoc Client (RIDC)," describes Remote Intradoc Client (RIDC) and how you can use the RIDC API for communication with Oracle Content Server.

• Chapter 10, "Using Content Integration Suite (CIS)," describes the Content Integration Suite (CIS) API, which you can use to access Oracle Content Server services and data from a unified object model.

• Chapter 11, "Using the Java Content Repository Adapter," provides information about the Java Content Repository API, which was developed under the Java Community Process as JSR-170 and includes the Content Repository for Java API and the Java Content Repository (JCR).

• Chapter 12, "Using Oracle UCM Web Services," discusses using web services and SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) to manage Oracle Content Server.

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Related Documents

For more information, see the following documents in the Oracle Universal Content Management 11g Release 1 (11.1.1) documentation set:

• Oracle Fusion Middleware System Administrator's Guide for Oracle Content Server

• Oracle Fusion Middleware Application Administrator's Guide for Content Server

• Oracle Fusion Middleware Idoc Script Reference Guide

• Oracle Fusion Middleware Services Reference Guide for Oracle Universal Content Management

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