IBM Workplace programming model overview

Everything a user works with is assumed to be content in one form or another. The IBM Workplace platform provides a framework for users to work with (and collaborate around) composite content. By our definition, content can be a document library, a Domino database, a mail message, an instant messaging transcript, a Microsoft Word document, a news item, a WebSphere Portal page, and so on.

Every instance of content has some core metadata properties...