Craig’s Musings

Shortly after the Documentum 5.2.5 release, customer interest in web services piqued in conjunction with Documentum’s investment in services via service-based business objects. SBOs, as they’re typically referred to, are supported in the Business Object Framework (BOF), which is the codified customization framework for DFC.
So, in order to preserve customer investment in SBOs, the Web [...]

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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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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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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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During EMC World last week, my Grenoble colleague Pierre-Yves “Pitch” Chevalier presented this subject on behalf of Marc Brette, who couldn’t make the event this year but authored the presentation. Pie attended the session and blogged about it here. Having received the presentation from Pitch and Marc, you can download it here. Cheers…

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