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Web services, Microsoft developers, WSF and DFS

July 7th, 2008 · No Comments · Content management, DFS

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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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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Implementing DFS Search Services

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

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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Hands-on DFS

May 21st, 2008 · 1 Comment · Content management, DFS

Tom and I were able to present to another great set of attendees–lots of healthy curiosity and great questions. Now that the labs have been conducted, here are the presentation slides–version from today, which was slightly modified from Monday’s deck.
It’s been a great talking with a lot of folks about DFS, DSE, etc. Thanks [...]

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DFS best practices

May 20th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Content management, DFS

This afternoon, colleagues Mike Mohen and Paul Kwitkin presented a well-attended session, “Documentum Foundation Services – Best Practices and Real World Examples.” It’s always a good thing to have someone else be able to tell folks how well your software performs under load and back it up with hard numbers and context. Usually this [...]

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