February 3, 2010 - Article by Joshua Toub
Robust software begins with solid development practices, and
few are as fundamental as having a well laid out source code
organizational structure. Unfortunately, when building solutions with
Alfresco, many people simply follow the out-of-the-box product’s
source structure, inadvertently casting aside source code organization
best practices. This article shows you how you can enhance the
supportability and maintainability of your Alfresco solutions by using
Spring configuration techniques to enable Alfresco to find your source
in the source tree of your choosing.
December 22, 2008 - Article by Jason Duke
The WDK Combo Container provides a flexible, extensible framework for driving multiple instances of
a specific component in response to a multiselect action. Although customization can be dangerous, with the right
context and careful planning the framework can be adapted to a wide array of situations. This article provides
an introduction to the WDK Combo Container mechanisms, including Multiselect Argument Decoding, Value
Propagation, and Auto-Commit.
December 12, 2008 - Article by Jamie Balling
Make your Documentum workflow integration resilient to outages with automated recovery. This article discusses the details of an implementation strategy.
November 7, 2008 - Article by Steve McMichael
Currently, EMC provides no officially supported mechanisms for
creating, updating, and/or deploying BOF modules in a fully
automated manner from source code to a target docbase.
Thankfully, Documentum Application Builder ships with an Ant
task, “BOFPackaging”, that we can use to deploy new modules to a
Documentum repository. But while the automated “BOFPackaging” task represents a
significant improvement over manual deployments, it too can
be inefficient at times. To address this problem, I created
a generic, commandline application, FileLoader, which can add new files or update existing files in a
docbase.
October 24, 2008 - Article by Josh McJilton
Implementing common technology solutions is a standard way to drive down IT development and support costs. However, initiatives to implement these common solutions often fail to deliver the expected value or simply flat out fail. One reason for these failures is that all too often companies try to implement the wrong type of common solution. This article explores this conclusion and presents a model your organization can use to avoid this common mistake.
October 10, 2008 - Article by Jason Duke
As part of the new Documentum 6 platform, EMC has introduced Documentum Composer, a new application for
packaging and deploying Documentum artifacts. This article aims to provide an initial introduction to the
Composer application, including some core concepts, a discussion of major changes from the world of Documentum
Application Builder (DAB) and Documentum Application Installer (DAI), and some tips and tricks to make using
Composer easier and less problematic.
August 29, 2008 - Article by Terence McDevitt
As an enterprise attempts to empower knowledge workers, they face challenges with how to ensure that information that is disseminated is also protected. Information Rights Management solves this problem by providing security policies and encryption on critical content. Recently, a number of key players in the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) space have integrated IRM technologies into their platforms. In 2006, EMC acquired Authentica, allowing Documentum to provide IRM capabilities to its users. This article will explore Documentum IRM Services features as well as how IRM Services integrates into a typical Documentum architecture.
August 29, 2008 - Article by Jamie Balling
Application monitoring should not only confirm that system components are running, but should make sure they are functioning properly. This paper discusses a strategy we employed for a complex Documentum based system.
August 27, 2008 - Article by Thomas Hughes
This article provides Documentum developers and testers with an introduction to the WDK 6.0 test framework distributed by EMC. The article walks you through the steps of creating and verifying a basic Webtop test, presents some tips and tricks to help you avoid problems, and provides an overview of the test framework’s advanced testing features.
August 6, 2008 - Article by Glen Tarrant
Lifecycle state extensions are a powerful tool for Documentum developers
in that they allow the addition of custom attributes to lifecycle states.
This article shows you how to create and access custom lifecycle state extensions
for Documentum.
