About this Book
This book, the COGNITUM Console User Guide provides detailed instructions for designing web applications with the COGNITUM Console.
Welcome
Welcome to COGNITUM, the leading solution for rapid design, deployment, and maintenance of flexible, non intrusive, and business-oriented Identity Management services.
The new COGNITUM reinforces the competitive edge gained by previously released versions. A number of new features enable your company to make substantial gains in performance and profitability. COGNITUM allows you to maximize your return on investment in directory infrastructure through dynamic, personalized and user-friendly access to identities.
Audience
This book is intended for J2EE Web application developers who want to install and deploy COGNITUM applications in a production environment.
It is assumed the developer is familiar with the following:
- Designing web applications
- Web application server configuration and administration
- LDAP directories
- Relational databases
Documentation Center
The software offers Web Help. To access Help, press F1 or click the Help button within COGNITUM product. The Online help supports Mozilla Firefox and Windows Internet Explorer browsers. If your default browser is other than these browsers e.g. google Chrome, change it to Mozilla Firefox or Windows Internet Explorer to see Web Help.
Related Publications
The following related publications supplement this book and the online help:
| Category | Document | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Installation | COGNITUM Installation Guide | Provides detailed instructions on installing and setting up the COGNITUM software to meet your operational requirements. It also describes the procedure for deploying COGNITUM applications. |
| Developer’s Guide | COGNITUM Developer’s Guide | Provides quick answers to specific implementation questions. It lists the procedures to follow to use the COGNITUM packages. |
| COGNITUM IDE Integration Developer’s Guide | Provides detailed information about using the COGNITUM Eclipse plug-in. | |
| Reference Guide | COGNITUM Quick Tour Guide | Provides the first few steps of learning to use the COGNITUM applications. It demonstrates the development process by walking you through a simple use case. |
| Designing and Packaging Applications | COGNITUM Workflow Implementation Guide | Provides detailed instructions to develop web applications designed with COGNITUM. |
| COGNITUM AD Toolkit Implementation Guide | Provides detailed instructions to build a COGNITUM application using Microsoft Active Directory as a data source. | |
| COGNITUM Scheduler Implementation Guide | Provides detailed instructions to develop a Scheduler object in the Console for COGNITUM. | |
| COGNITUM Reporting Implementation Guide | Provides detailed information about the Reporting facility for COGNITUM. | |
| COGNITUM OrgChart Implementation Guide | Provides detailed instructions to integrate the COGNITUM Orgchart features in an existing environment. | |
| COGNITUM Data Import Implementation Guide | Provides detailed instructions to configure and use the COGNITUM Data Import package. | |
| COGNITUM Data Export Implementation Guide | Provides detailed instructions to configure and use the COGNITUM Data Export package. | |
| COGNITUM Common UI Services Integration Implementation Guide | Provides detailed information of advanced issues about the integration of a COGNITUM application based on COGNITUM 7.8 technology into the Identity Management Common UI Services portal. | |
| COGNITUM External Portals (Portlets) Implementation Guide | Provides detailed instructions to view COGNITUM forms into Java Portals. | |
| COGNITUM External Portals (Web Parts) Implementation Guide | Provides detailed instructions to view COGNITUM forms into SharePoint Portal Server 2003. | |
| COGNITUM Web-accessible Forms Designer Guide | Provides detailed instructions to develop business Web-accessible forms for applications designed with COGNITUM. It describes how to configure the COGNITUM Development Studio to generate Web-accessible forms. | |
| COGNITUM Web Forms Designer Guide | Provides detailed instructions to develop business forms for applications designed with COGNITUM. It also describes how to configure the COGNITUM Development Studio component to generate web forms and CSS files. | |
| COGNITUM Directory Config User Guide | Provides detailed instructions to configure iPlanet Directory Server or Sun ONE Directory Server in order to store the data of the COGNITUM Reporting or Scheduler option. | |
| Notices | COGNITUM Release Notes | Describes what’s new, supported platforms, databases, compatibility issues, and how to obtain technical support. |
Conventions
This book uses the following special conventions:
- All syntax, operating system terms, and literal examples are presented in this typeface.
- Variable text in path names, system messages, or syntax is displayed in italic text e.g. testsys/instance/fileName
- The symbol => connects items in a menu sequence. For example, Actions => Create Test instructs you to choose the Create Test command from the Actions menu.