CMSDK vs. Oracle Files

Is this correct?
1) starting with version 9.0.3 iFS became two separate offerings; Oracle Files (Which comes with the Oracle Collaboration Suite - OCS) and Oracle Content Managment SDK (CMSDK) which comes with Oracle 9iAS.
2) Oracle Files is a packaged solution for enterprise file server replacement. By consolidating dozens, hundreds, or thousands of file servers, customers can dramatically reduce the cost of running their file server infrastructure. In addition, the enterprise collaboration features we added to Filesbuilt on features already in the CM SDKprovide enough content management functionality that many customers also evaluate it as a simple, scalable alternative to custom or packaged document or knowledge management solutions. Oracle Files ships with the Oracle Collaboration Suite.
3) The Oracle Content Management SDK is designed to help developers building content management applications, or adding content management features to other solutions, complete these ECM systems faster and more successfully. The robust Java API, protocol servers, and other features in the CM SDK provide the sort of ECM components that many developers need. The CM SDK ships with Oracle 9iAS.
I got that off metalink, and so this has got to be true. Anyone here from Oracle know for sure?

I'm not "from Oracle" but I've talked to Oracle about this issue. What I've heard is as follows:
Oracle Files is a component of the Collaboration Suite built using the Oracle CM SDK. The problem is that it is not extendable using the CM SDK. In order to ensure that a CMSDK application that you develop may someday integrate with an Oracle Files repository I have been told by Oracle that: You should not create any new CLASSOBJECTS as children of FOLDERS or DOCUMENTS. This elimnates about half the functionality discussed in the CMSDK Developers Guide. The suggested alternative is to create application linked Categories rather than subclassing the FOLDER or DOCUMENT classobjects.
It looks to me like customization of Oracle Files is limited to adding your logo and changing the color scheme. When you deliver Files there isn't any ifs/cmsdk/ tree so this effectively prevents you from creating any custom_classes necessary to create agents or servers. I suspect that you could fiddle these in; but that would fall in to the category of unsupported extensions. Even if you could fit agents or servers in I believe that they would have to be passive, that is they should not mutate events or attempt to create objects.
So if Oracle Files does what you need, great. It is an inexpensive extension to AS 10g and I don't think that you could develop your own interface for less than $45/user. However, I think that it basically works for intranet collaboration, which is just one of many things that you can accomplish with CMSDK.
If you want to integrate CMSDK with Workflow or Interconnect; if you want to extend document types and provide custom processing, dynamic folder linking, and other fun stuff; or if you want to embed CMSDK into vertical application then Oracle Files won't work for you and you have to roll-your-own with CMSDK.
Mark Millman
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제품 : SQL*PLUS
작성날짜 : 1996-11-12
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==========================================
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