Introduction

This section of the FileNet® P8 Platform documentation includes resources for developers who want to provide custom solutions using the 4.5 Content Engine Java™ or .NET APIs as well as the 4.0 WSDL-based Content Engine Web Service. Documentation for the 3.5 WSDL-based Content Engine Web Service is available on the IBM documentation web site. (To download this document from the IBM support page, see Accessing IBM FileNet Documentation.) In addition, this section provides documentation for the Content Engine Web Service Extensible Authentication Framework for developers who want to develop custom login modules that will handle binary security tokens as defined in WS-Security standards.

If you have existing 3.5.x Content Java API or Content Engine COM API applications that you want to upgrade to work in a 4.5 environment, you must use the Java API or COM API compatibility layer that is supplied with the 4.5 release. Reference documentation for the compatibility layers is available only on the IBM support page. For information on upgrading a 3.5.x Content Java API or COM API application to run in a 4.5 environment, see Upgrade Custom Applications.