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Data access, Microsoft developers and DAS

June 30th, 2008 · No Comments · Content management

DFC PIA, in turn, became the foundation for Documentum ADO.NET Services (DAS), which released with the EMC Documentum 5.3 platform.

DAS enables Documentum to be a first-class data source for the large number of freely available data-bound controls from Microsoft and even larger number of commercially available third party data-bound controls. If you knew how to [...]

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DFC, Microsoft developers, .NET and DFC PIA

June 30th, 2008 · No Comments · Content management, DFS

In early 2002 Microsoft released .NET 1.0, and it was quite clear that .NET would quickly supplant COM as the mainstream runtime for the Microsoft platform.
Fortunately, .NET provided good (bi-directional) interop with COM (e.g. callable wrappers and interop assemblies). Furthermore, software publishers (ISVs) could produce primary interop assemblies (PIAs) to add functional, deployment and administrative [...]

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DFC, Microsoft developers, COM and DJCB

June 28th, 2008 · No Comments · Content management, DFS

Prior to DFS, the primary solution-building, business logic-focused EMC Documentum platform API was Documentum Foundation Classes (DFC).
When I joined Documentum (now EMC) over ten years ago, DFC was under development as part of the significant 4i release (aka “Project Piper”). Back then Microsoft shipped a leading JVM and had one of the best IDEs for [...]

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Resetting the interop button

June 28th, 2008 · No Comments · Content management, DFS

Executive Summary
Since this is a longer post (actually a set of posts), allow me to summarize the main points from the get-go as follows:

DFC Primary Interop Assembly (PIA) and the underlying Documentum Java-COM Bridge (DJCB) support the DFC 5.3 API. That is, interface changes in DFC 6.x are not reflected in the DJCB and therefore [...]

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One small step toward going digital

June 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Content management

I admit that I still enjoy the printed page–always will. However, while I won’t be trading in my novels for an e-book any time soon, I am trying to “go digital” where magazines and periodicals are concerned.
Resources like the digital libraries of ACM and IEEE are wonderful, and most magazines offer or plan to [...]

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