Content management system and methodology for implementing a complex object using nested/recursive structures

A content management system is provided including a plurality of tables forming a tree-based storage hierarchy. The system includes a library server having a stored procedure which creates a hierarchical tree-based storage structure having any number of child components horizontally and any number of component types vertically thus specifying a tree topology. Advantageously, a single invocation of the stored procedure will create the specified tree-based data storage structure which is stored in the library server.