Resilient Documentum Workflow Integration with Automated Recovery
Make your Documentum workflow integration resilient to outages with automated recovery. This article discusses the details of an implementation strategy.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This article explores Documentum search features with a heavy focus on the Java DFC APIs related to search.
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.
This article provides a practical example-based introduction to client programming with the out-of-the-box DFS services.
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.