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.
The EMC Developer Network features a number of discussion forums. To help facilitate conversation around DFS, I’ve created a new DFS discussion thread.
Whether you choose to comment here on this blog, within the new discussion thread, or otherwise, 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!
31 responses so far ↓
1 Storagezilla // May 26, 2007 at 5:33 pm
You owe me a podcast. I plan on collecting.
2 Craig Randall // May 27, 2007 at 10:58 am
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
3 sturner // May 29, 2007 at 7:26 am
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
4 Craig Randall // May 29, 2007 at 8:43 am
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
5 Technology Standards the the Enterprise, Getting Too Much Attention? « Word of Pie // Jun 23, 2007 at 9:39 am
[...] their leading technologists, truly cares about standards, but I think the enablement of SOA using Documentum Foundation Services is as close as we are going to get for a few [...]
6 Craig Randall // Jun 24, 2007 at 3:15 pm
Thanks for picking up on DFS, Laurence. I’ve just blogged more about ECM standards here.
7 Opening in Orlando // Jun 24, 2007 at 5:05 pm
[...] ← John Mayer and the Lorax Documentum Foundation Services [...]
8 Standards and ECM // Jun 24, 2007 at 6:05 pm
[...] and asked if they’re getting too much attention. In the process, he linked to one of my EMC Documentum Foundation Services (DFS) [...]
9 alexandra // Jul 6, 2007 at 4:32 pm
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?
10 Craig Randall // Jul 6, 2007 at 4:53 pm
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
11 alexandra // Jul 8, 2007 at 2:28 pm
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?
12 Standardizing Authentication « Word of Pie // Jul 17, 2007 at 2:07 pm
[...] Foundation Classes, or wait for D6 and the arrival of the Documentum Foundation Services. DFS could make the task easier. Regardless of my approach, I wouldn’t need to deal with [...]
13 ECM Standards, SAML, and the DFC « Word of Pie // Jul 20, 2007 at 11:42 am
[...] for the DFS WSDL, it should be available when D6 is properly released in the next few weeks. Documentum has [...]
14 Insights despite the inciting // Jul 28, 2007 at 7:45 pm
[...] noted previously herein (e.g. [1] - within the referenced deck on slide 15, [2]), DFS supports WS-Security. Yes, its support is via [...]
15 D6 is Coming! « Word of Pie // Jul 30, 2007 at 5:58 pm
[...] new first Developer Challenge is going to be the creation of a D6 Web Services application using DFS. BEA is going to be providing $100,000 in prize money and all the licenses for supporting software. [...]
16 Word of Pie Fitting SharePoint into the ECM Picture « // Aug 19, 2007 at 10:35 am
[...] In the first service pack for D6, Content Services of SharePoint is going to be rebuilt on top of Documentum Foundation Services. This will provide a more standard approach that will allow both products to take separate [...]
17 Word of Pie The ECM WSDL Discussion Leading to More « // Aug 22, 2007 at 6:12 pm
[...] box WSDLs in ECM, I can hardly argue. It wouldn’t shock me though. Hopefully the DFS ones will measure up better [...]
18 Conversation in Monaco // Nov 6, 2007 at 5:44 am
[...] I had the privilege of talking about EMC Documentum Foundation Services (DFS) to roughly a 100 or so customers, partners and integrators at Momentum Europe 2007, held at [...]
19 Defending Enterprise Content Management « Word of Pie // Nov 15, 2007 at 8:46 pm
[...] progress in that direction. They are turning their existing Content Services products into DFS based interfaces. What they need to do is turn all of their interfaces into DFS based [...]
20 Prelude to a product offering // Nov 19, 2007 at 9:45 am
[...] At the time I sent my remarks I wouldn’t have thought that it would be until roughly five years later that SOA enablement would become initial reality in the form of EMC Documentum Foundation Services. [...]
21 Sizing a D6 System « Word of Pie // Nov 21, 2007 at 9:14 am
[...] addition to Webtop and TaskSpace, how about a column for DFS? This may be a metric collection issue at this point. However, it is a data point that [...]
22 What’s new in DFS 6.0 SP1 // Dec 22, 2007 at 4:26 pm
[...] following new features are provided in EMC Documentation Foundation Services (DFS) for Documentum 6 SP1, which officially released yesterday [...]
23 Tips: Dynamically Creating Users in the DFC « Word of Pie // Jan 7, 2008 at 7:53 pm
[...] asked how to create a user through code in Documentum using either the DFC or DFS [...]
24 DFS tutorial // Jan 16, 2008 at 10:14 pm
[...] response to the DFS area within the EDN forums, Sergey at DFS Notes has been kind enough to post a three-part tutorial [...]
25 Conversational Collaboration at EMC « Word of Pie // Feb 24, 2008 at 8:36 pm
[...] If only there was an easy way to plug an interface into Documentum with minimal coding. DFS could do it, but with an ECM SOA standard, he’d already be [...]
26 The Endless Security Cycle « Word of Pie // Feb 25, 2008 at 7:46 pm
[...] needs to understand one little detail about the latest version of DFS (breaking my no issue rule). His latest comment attacks the following feature: The DFS SDK [...]
27 See Pie at EMC World 2008 « Word of Pie // Apr 21, 2008 at 4:05 pm
[...] DFS conversations with Craig Randall, preferably over a frosty [...]
28 DFS in Vegas // May 19, 2008 at 12:59 pm
[...] lab with my colleague Tom Heller. I’m looking forward to going beyond just introducing Documentum Foundation Services like last year to level-setting attendees in order to support them in quickly building their own [...]
29 Hot Topics from EMC World 2008: CMA Edition « Word of Pie // May 26, 2008 at 5:40 pm
[...] that I liked about the new interfaces, they are all using Documentum Foundation Services (DFS). That’s correct. They use Web Services which means that they are part-way to [...]
30 Resetting the interop button // Jun 27, 2008 at 9:16 am
[...] D6, EMC Documentum Foundation Services (DFS), is the fully supported and recommended platform API for interoperable solutions development [...]
31 Documentum 6.5 with services in mind // Jul 24, 2008 at 8:27 am
[...] the Documentum Foundation Services (DFS) team first embarked on its mission to better service-orient the Documentum platform, I [...]
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