Migrate existing content
Overview
IBM Web Content Management resources can originate from...
- Existing content management systems
- WebSphere Portal Content Publisher
- Existing html servers
Content must be re-packaged before it can be used by the IBM Web Content Management environment. Pages created using editors such as Microsoft Front page will need to be "cleaned" before importation into the WCM system.
There are consultancies and commercial products available that will import pages into the aptrix databases directly, but even these products require substantial up front work. See www.ilwwcm.com and www.vamosa.com.
Before migrating, determine and set the maximum size of the content repository be defined. The maximum database size cannot be changed once installation has been completed. The setting which specifies the size of the content repository is...
jdbc.resources.maxSize=1000...and is set in the aptrixjpe.properties file. In this example, the maximum database size is 1 GB.
Migration Tools
XML Data Mediator
XML Data Mediator is a tool for bi-directional data conversion between XML and structured data formats such as relational or LDAP data. This tool externalizes the specification of the mapping between XML and relational databases, and it replaces the programming effort with the simpler effort of writing a script that describes the relationships between the XML constructs and the corresponding RDBMS constructs. XML Data Mediator can be used as a stand-alone utility, or it can be integrated as a library in other applications.
XML Data Mediator simplifies the task of defining mappings between XML and other data formats by allowing declarative specification of the relationship between XML constructs (such as elements and attributes) and relational or LDAP schema elements (such as rows and columns, or LDAP objects). Once such a mapping is specified at a schema level, the XML Data Mediator run-time engine is able to automatically convert data to and from XML through its Store2XML and XML2Store components. Thus, the Store2XML component can collect data from one or more data stores and assemble it into a coherent XML document abiding by the specified schema. The XML2Store component extracts specific pieces of an incoming XML document and forwards them to one or more data stores through data modification commands (insert, update, or delete, as specified by the user).
Information Integrator
IBM DB2 Information Integrator merges diverse types of data into a format that provides easy access to information across an enterprise. With DB2 Information Integrator you can perform the following tasks:
- Access traditional forms of data and emerging data sources
- Use data that is structured, semi-structured, and unstructured
- Retrieve, update, transform, and replicate information from diverse distributed sources
IBM DB2 Information Integrator Standard Edition provides replication server and federated data server capabilities. Federated data access gives applications integrated access to diverse and distributed data sources including relational databases, XML documents, flat files, text documents, content sources, the World Wide Web, and a variety of other sources. Using DB2 Information Integrator Standard Edition, businesses can extend reporting and analysis applications with real time data, semi-structured data, non-relational data, or rich content, yielding more current and comprehensive results. Businesses can reduce costs and deploy integration projects more quickly using their standard development environments. The DB2 Information Integrator Standard Edition is licensed by processor and data source connections
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