Integrating Livelink functionality into a portal?

[awiesauer]

Hello,

I'm developing a corporate portal for an industrial partner. The portal is based on Java Portlet Standard (JSR168). I have to integrate Livelink into this portal, but I'am not sure what is the best way to do this.

Users of the portal should be able to view and create folders, to view, check in, check out and upload documents to Livelink via the portal. The GUI of the portal should be as similar as possible to the Livelink GUI.

What is the best way in your opinion?
LAPI or Web Services or XML Export or others?
Could the portal integration kit be helpful?

Thanks for your help!
Andy

 

[appnair]

Please read upon OpenText's product offering's along these lines.These might be helpful rathet than programming every bit and piece involved almost amounting to re-inventing the wheel.The products that ring a bell along thes lines are
A)Communities Of practice
b)Coreport
I am not sure but you can try their public website

http://online.opentext.com.Otherwise

if you were programming your product,I would probably wrap my code in a bunch of templated LAPI code since all the other things are dependent on other players.LAPI is the only thing that drives completely off OpenText code.Servlets are dependent on java,XML on their consortium and so on.LAPI will probably work till opentext re-writes their core engine which is no mean feat.

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