Sharepoint as a CMS

I do not know anything about Sharepoint, and my company is rolling it out in a few departments. I am familiar with the workings and usage of Oracle (Stellent) CMS (for storing docs with meta-data, searching for docs, etc), and I am asking if I may use Share开发者_开发百科point in a similar way? Can I programmatically upload docs to Sharepoint, from a java web application, and do searches and doc retrieval?

Yes. You are able to do all of that from Java via the MOSS 2k7 Web Services. Here's a quick reference for uploading a file to a list (the example uses .NET, but you can use Java just as easily).

David Klein's Corner: Uploading Files to MOSS 2007 via the Copy.asmx Web Service