Develop Applications that Leverage the Power of FatWire’s Enterprise Content Management Solution

Leveraging a company’s IT assets to maximize value is a key factor for staying competitive in the marketplace. The BEA WebLogic Platform supports this goal for companies by providing a development environment that integrates applications, streamlines business processes, and delivers information to multiple channels. FatWire Content Server complements this platform, making it easy for WebLogic developers to build content-rich applications. FatWire offers a Control Bridge integration with WebLogic Workshop that enables developers to build applications that leverage the content managed by FatWire Content Server. FatWire Content Server is also 100% Java and is integrated with the components of the WebLogic platform including WebLogic Application Server, WebLogic Integration , and WebLogic Portal.

Enables Developers to Build Content-centric Applications
BEA WebLogic Workshop provides developers a powerful, integrated development environment for building applications that access multiple systems, repositories, and applications. One of the most critical repositories within an organization is the Content Management System (CMS). The CMS stores important information such as HR documents, product information, Web content, marketing information, digital assets, and customer data.

FatWire has created a control for WebLogic Workshop that enables developers to transparently access content that is managed by FatWire’s Content Server. This Control Bridge provides developers the ability to create content-rich, service-oriented applications in BEA WebLogic Workshop. For example, developers can create e-commerce applications that access multiple back-end systems for order information and product availability while also retrieving information such as product descriptions, categorization, and images that reside in FatWire Content Server.

The key control integration for Workshop is Content Server’s Data Access Control. This provides full access to all Content Server assets regardless of type: document, digital asset, structured information, or metadata. The integration utilizes Content Server’s strong Web Services infrastructure.

Allows Schema Mapping
Developers create target schemas for their applications to enable a universal view of all information that is part of the application process. In many cases, this schema won’t directly match the predefined schema within the content management repository. To address this issue, FatWire has created a Content Server Schema Control that allows Workshop developers to map Content Server fields to the Workshop target schema. This feature allows developers to create applications using their own predefined schema.

Includes Process Flow Integration
BEA WebLogic Integration provides a strong business process management tool called process flow that visually represents the information flow associated with an application developed in Workshop. FatWire has provided developers a process flow integration model to include FatWire controls within an application. Developers can create a process flow in WebLogic Integration that visually represents Content Server’s content assets within the service-oriented architecture (SOA) framework.

Leverages WebLogic Application Server
FatWire Content Server is 100% Java and natively runs on the market-leading WebLogic Application Server. It is able to leverage all of the services provided by the application server for fault-tolerance, clustering, load balancing, and fail-over. This makes FatWire Content Server as robust and scalable as your BEA WebLogic infrastructure and lets it adhere to corporate application platform standards.

Empowers Business Users
FatWire Content Server also meets the requirements of business users who drive a solution’s value. FatWire Spark pCM (portal Content Management) for the BEA WebLogic Portal provides easy-to- use content management interfaces that allow non-technical business users to author and version content, categorize content using metadata, collaborate through workflows, and preview content – all through one seamless process that is accessible via the BEA WebLogic Portal interface.