Documentum Foundation Services

Earlier this week I presented Documentum Foundation Services to a full house at SDC07. I see that John Newton picked up my post. (BTW, I very much agree with John that EMC could do a much better job of opening up the event, both to those in attendance and those unable to attend, by blogging. Transparency is here to stay.)

John suspects that DFS contains EMC Documentum’s “long awaited web services interfaces.” Actually, DFS is more about SOA enablement than about just web services, but it is true that DFS provides WSDL contracts for a number of core platform services.

On Thursday I presented a repeat of Monday’s conversation to about 70 SDC07 attendees. Since the repeat session occurred during the very last hour of the conference and the previous evening featured the attendee party at Universal Studios Islands of Adventure, I felt the turn-out to be quite good.

My presentation–as presented on Thursday–is here. I was also able to record Thursday’s presentation. Here is that recording, which runs a little over 51 minutes. Lastly, here is the small DFS remote client sample that was discussed during my presentation. I revised the sample slightly from what was presented during Monday’s session to highlight the variety of ways to determine how a particular service contract can be bound by a client.

Whether you choose to comment here on this blog or on EDN, I do hope to hear from you.

Let’s build a community around DFS together. Cheers!

Update 8/29/2007: The good folks at EDN have produced media that combines my presentation slides synchronized with my audio presentation of them during SDC. Enjoy!

Update 1/13/2008: I’ve begun to move my DFS-related media into the Documentum community area within the EDN. This will allow me to better follow and follow-up on individual media (e.g. point out when a sample is out-dated, etc.). It also helps better promote EDN.

-Craig
http://craigrandall.net/
@craigsmusings

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You owe me a podcast. I plan on collecting.

Yes I do, Mark, and I look forward to our conversation. Let’s up something soon. Sorry that Orlando didn’t work out. Regards. -Craig

Glad to see you made it home ok … We spoke at EMC World about DFS and interoperability with other (soon to be legacy) CMS’s. Is there a way to get the DFS SDK (Beta) now? I looked at the sample code from your EMC World presentation. I would like to build a D6 POC environment as soon as possible…

Thanks,

Scott Turner – Burntsand

Hi Scott. Yes, I recall our conversation. The short answer is “yes” to your get-the-pre-release-DFS-SDK-now question. I’ll email you shortly with the details. Thanks for your interest in DFS. -Craig

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Thanks for picking up on DFS, Laurence. I’ve just blogged more about ECM standards here.

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Just a quick question about the API for DFS. Will it be possible to set and retrieve relationships between objects in the repository that are stored using the special relationship object?

Yes, Alexandra, relations/relationships have first class (and greatly enhanced!) support in DFS. I’d love to know more about your particular use cases where relationship retrieval and/or manipulation is concerned. Also, there is a new feature in D6 known as “smart container” that you’ll be interested in where relations and relationships are concerned. Cheers! -Craig

Thanks for the answer…I have sent you an email with some more details on how we use relationships. Mainly, we are interested in graphically visualizing (and possibly setting) connections between objects in an external viewer (editor). BTW, how does this “smart container” work?

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