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In the ever changing world of Alfresco, keeping up with the latest product information can be challenging. We’ve gathered a list of resources that we think you’ll find useful. If we’ve left anything off the list, feel free to comment below and we’ll get your favorite resources added to our list.
Getting started with Alfresco dashlet development can be a little intimidating. Writing the old faithful ‘Hello World’ dashlet, with its two to three files, is easy enough, but adding real functionality to a new dashlet leaves many beginners lost in a jungle of configuration files and XML. One of the most valuable things a new dashlet can do, and something I struggled mightily with when developing my first dashlets, is provide users with the ability to dynamically configure its behavior. This article shows you how to make your own dashlets accept and manage configuration values, just like the ones from Alfresco.
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.
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.
Make your Documentum workflow integration resilient to outages with automated recovery. This article discusses the details of an implementation strategy.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.