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 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 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 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.
August 6, 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 repository.
Thankfully, Documentum Application Builder ships with an Ant task, “BOFPackaging”, that we can use to deploy new modules to a Documentum repository.
April 8, 2008 - Article by Aaron Dixon
This article explores Documentum search features with a heavy focus on the Java DFC APIs related to search.
April 8, 2008 - Article by Glen Tarrant
Custom lifecycle modules are a very powerful tool for Documentum developers
in that they allow the addition of custom business logic to lifecycle states.
This article shows you how to create custom Java lifecycle modules for Documentum.
September 27, 2007 - Article by Glen Tarrant
This article provides a practical example-based
introduction to client programming with the out-of-the-box DFS services.
July 9, 2007 - Article by Steve McMichael
This article describes how to use mock objects to perform offline testing of code written using Documentum Foundation Classes (DFC). Offline testing greatly simplifies the process of unit testing DFC code, because it eliminates the need for a live Documentum server.
May 21, 2007 - Presentation by Steve McMichael
Writing effective JUnit tests for DFC code can be difficult, especially when issues like security, setting up docbase state, and tearing down docbase state are taken into consideration. In this session, we discuss the obstacles and demonstrate a basic framework for testing DFC code.
