IBM® Content Navigator is a web application whose server component runs within a web container on a Java Platform, Enterprise Edition application server.
The following table shows which web applications are supported on each web application server. Ensure that you are running a supported version of your web application server. For more information, see Prerequisites for installing IBM Content Navigator.
Repository Type | IBM WebSphere® Application Server Version 7 | IBM WebSphere Application Server Version 8 or later | Oracle WebLogic Server Version 11gR1 | Oracle WebLogic Server 12 or later |
---|---|---|---|---|
IBM Content Manager Enterprise Edition | ✓ | ✓ | ||
IBM Content Manager OnDemand | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
IBM FileNet® Content Manager | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Task manager services | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Sync services | ✓ | ✓ | ||
IBM CMIS for Content Manager | ✓ | ✓ | ||
IBM CMIS for Content Manager OnDemand | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
IBM CMIS for FileNet Content Manager | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
IBM FileNet Collaboration Services | ✓ | ✓ |
If you use IBM Content Navigator with IBM Content Manager or IBM FileNet Content Manager, you must deploy IBM Content Navigator on the same type of web application server as your repository, including the version. Because IBM Content Manager OnDemand is not deployed on a web application server, this restriction does not apply to IBM Content Manager OnDemand repositories.
You can use one instance of IBM Content Navigator to interact with all the supported repositories, or you can use separate instances for each repository.
IBM Content Navigator must be deployed in its own application server instance (that is, deployed into a single JVM). For example, if you are running IBM WebSphere Application Server, you deploy IBM Content Navigator into the application server that is running within a profile. No other Java EE applications can be deployed within this application server instance. However, other Java EE applications can be deployed in their own application server instances within a profile if the server is sized appropriately.
If you want to install the full IBM Enterprise Records solution, you must deploy IBM Enterprise Records to a different application server instance from IBM Content Navigator. Alternatively, to use record declaration capabilities in the IBM Content Navigator web client, you can add the IBM Enterprise Records plug-in interface, which is provided as a plug-in JAR file, to your existing IBM Content Navigator installation.
The exception to this rule is IBM Case Manager, Version 5.2 or higher. The IBM Case Manager administration client and Case Manager Client must be deployed into the same JVM as the IBM Content Navigator web client.
IBM Content Navigator supports session replication only for IBM FileNet P8. Session replication is recommended for highly available IBM FileNet P8 environments. However, in a Kerberos/SPNEGO single sign-on (SSO) environment, session replication is required for failover support.
When IBM Content Navigator is deployed in a clustered environment, application server sessions that access IBM FileNet P8 repositories can use session replication to ensure uninterrupted service. However, if your IBM Content Navigator deployment accesses other types of repositories, users must log in to IBM Content Navigator again if an application server session is interrupted.
You cannot deploy IBM CMIS for Content Manager OnDemand and another IBM Content Navigator component in the same instance of WebSphere Application Server or in the same Oracle WebLogic Server domain.