WebC-Docs - A CMS-based Document Management System

Content Management Systems (CMS) are typically regarded as critical software platforms for the success of organizational web sites and intranets. Nevertheless, a simple CMS alone does not provide enough support for a typical organization’s requirements, such as document management and storage. On the other hand, Enterprise Content Management (ECM) systems are typically regular web-applications that provide such functionality but without the added advantage of being based on a component-based CMS platform. This paper presents the architecture and major technical details of WebC-Docs, a highly-customizable toolkit (for the WebComfort CMS platform) that provides document management functionality. Due to this, the WebC-Docs toolkit can be configured and used in various kinds of scenarios.