METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ACCESSING A PIECE OF CONTENT STORED ON AN EXTERNAL CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

摘要

A system for a business process hosted on an application server to request content from an external content management system (CMS) independently of the manner in which the content is stored and a method for doing the same are disclosed. The system comprises a CMS server for managing a content request from the business process to the external CMS; a CMS driver interface operatively associated with the external CMS for transmitting the content request between the external CMS and the CMS server, the CMS driver interface translating a piece of content corresponding to the content request from the external CMS into a specific object representation; and a CMS manager for managing the content request from the business process to the external CMS and keeping track of content available from the external CMS operatively associated with one of the corresponding CMS driver interface.