Craig’s Musings

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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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:
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{
font-size: small;
color: black;
font-family: consolas, “Courier New”, courier, monospace;
background-color: #ffffff;
/*white-space: pre;*/
}
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Rather than leverage the DFS SDK-based .NET assemblies to consume DFS services, some may prefer to leverage Visual Studio’s ability to proxy WSDL/XSD directly and choose instead to involve the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) designer via Add Service Reference… In this post, I will discuss just such a sample application.
As in the previous example, we’ll [...]

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In a previous post, I introduced web service support in the EMC Documentum platform for the Microsoft-oriented developer. (BTW, sorry for the time lapse since that post to this one–busy getting an important set of products ready for on-time release. ) In this post, I will focus on such support as provided with DFS [...]

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