Craig’s Musings

I am excited to (finally) say that EMC, IBM and Microsoft have announced the creation of a jointly developed interface specification called Content Management Interoperability Services, or CMIS. This is important news for the industry as CMIS uses web services to provide greater interoperability across multiple Enterprise Content Management (ECM) repositories.
The current draft specification will [...]

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My friend and colleague Paul Warren recently posted content that talks about the creation of Enterprise Content Services (like those in DFS) in the context of an integrated development environment (IDE):

Creating DFS services using Documentum Composer
Creating DFS services using the Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers

WTP support is something the Composer team is hard at [...]

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During a recent Charlie Rose interview with Peter Chernin, the subject of media formats came up, which reminded me of an earlier question I raised, “What is the natural unit of written collaboration?” When I mused upon this question it was in the context of documents and written content. I hadn’t really thought about so-called [...]

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You may have seen this week’s press release (PR) concerning the launch of the EMC Documentum 6.5 platform. Given that this blog is referenced in the PR’s sidebar, I thought it would be appropriate for me to offer my perspective on this release.
When the Documentum Foundation Services (DFS) team first embarked on its mission to [...]

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In our previous conversation, we left with a missing header to resolve. This post will resolve this issue and wrap-up the sample DFS Object service consumer based on direct proxy via Visual Studio/WCF.
First, we need to introduce a new internal class, ServiceContextHeader, as follows:
.csharpcode, .csharpcode pre
{
font-size: small;
color: black;
font-family: consolas, “Courier New”, courier, monospace;
background-color: #ffffff;
/*white-space: pre;*/
}
.csharpcode [...]

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