Issue #67 January, 2007

Welcome to the January, 2007 edition of the EMC Developer Network newsletter, a monthly update geared toward the EMC Developer Community. The newsletter will provide you with technical know-how, guide you toward new content on developer.emc.com and keep you abreast of EMC news and events.

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Service Station

Jeff Rosler kicks off the Service Station column, a series of articles about providing professional services around EMC software products. Featured guest columnists express their thoughts about a wide range of topics relating to designing, developing, and delivering solutions.

Are you a developer specializing in WDK-based applications?

Here's your chance to demonstrate your competency by creating the questions that will appear on the Content Management Web Application Programming (CMWP) exam.

You will recall that back in October 2006, a team of 16 subject matter experts in DFC wrote a mind-boggling total of 238 items for the Content Management Server Programming (CMSP) exam.

This is yet another opportunity to be a part the certification exam development effort. Click here for more details about the Application Developer track and how to apply to attend the workshop.

Web Services In Depth

Fabian Lee from Flatirons Solutions Corporation has written a set of three articles describing development of Web Services on the Documentum platform. The articles span areas from details of the Documentum Web Services Framework (WSF) to Securing your web services. Read more

EMC Software Developer Conference 2007

The 7th annual Software Developer Conference promises to be better than ever as it joins EMC World in 2007 to create the best educational forum and networking environment for software developers. This is an event that you won't want to miss since you will have access to all EMC World sessions including the EMC Technology Summit and Momentum.

The conference will be close to the Documentum 6 release and will contain in depth sessions covering this release. The sessions will cover the next generation Documentum IDE based on Eclipse, Aspects for Documentum, Web Services, next generation eRoom client, WDK 6 migration and many more.

In addition to D6 coverage, the conference will also feature plenty of hands-on labs and advanced sessions where you will get to interact with EMC engineers and architects. We will also feature the popular 'Meet the Experts' session and the Developer Challenge, which was a big hit at the 2006 Developer Conference.

Register early to get early bird prizes.

From The Editor

In his latest column, our Editor, Alan Z. talks about providing services, conference photos, and updating your profile.
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Off the Beaten Track

The latest column looks at an overview of the Smarts technology acquired by EMC.
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Software Developer Conference 2006 Photos

We had a very successful 2006 Developer Conference with over five hundred participants. Thanks to all for making the conference a success. The photographers - our very own editor Alan Z., Gale French, and David Elmes worked hard to capture moments from the conference. Here they are.

New Contributions from the Community

Repository Interrogation Utility

Harjit Singh from Flatirons Solutions Corporation has contributed an extension to the Repository Interrogation Utility that creates a DQL statement from for a type. The extension is available in the Type View of Repoint. Try it Out

Documentum Command Line Shell (DOCS)

Scott Roth from Flatirons Solutions Corporation, who had contributed the popular Documentum Command Shell (DOCS) to the Component Exchange has made the source for the tool available on Sourceforge.net. Read More
New Content

Inside the Web Services Framework

Contributed by - Fabian Lee, Flatirons Solutions Corporation

With the release of 5.3 and the Web Services Framework (WSF), Documentum has provided the tools to develop and deploy web services with a minimal learning curve. The WSF is integrated into the Documentum product suite, and Service Based Objects (SBO) can be exposed as web services transparently from within Application Builder. However, mastering web service design, implementation, and deployment requires a deeper understanding of the architecture and toolset. The purpose of this article is to take you beyond the published documentation, and explore the more advanced features of the WSF.

Consumers of the Web Services Framework

Contributed by - Fabian Lee, Flatirons Solutions Corporation

With the release of 5.3 and the Web Services Framework (WSF), Documentum has provided the tools to develop and deploy web services with a minimal learning curve. However, the system documentation focuses on the web service provider, and does not go into detail on developing the consumer. The client consumer is an essential part of the web service equation, and can be a challenge for the developer or integrator who is tasked with generating the initial proof-of-concept for an external group, often in a non-Java programming language.In this article, I will focus on the consumer side of web services and detail the steps needed to generate web service clients in Java, C#, VB.NET, Visual Basic for Applications, and Perl.

Securing the Web Services Framework

Contributed by - Fabian Lee, Flatirons Solutions Corporation

Web services are often used to integrate with systems external to an organization, which quickly leads security-minded administrators to voice concerns about the plain-text nature of the SOAP protocol. This concern should not to be taken lightly, considering that both authentication credentials and potentially sensitive business data will be transmitted across the public internet. This article looks at how you can secure your Web services.

Webtop 5.3 SP2 - SP4 LoadRunner User Scripts

The Webtop multi-user test script kit is a sample suite of Mercury LoadRunner user scripts designed to simulate users performing operations against an out-of-the-box installation of Webtop 5.3 SP2 - SP4. The test script kit simulates various user actions in the Classic mode of Webtop. The same URLS issued by "real" users are sent to the application/WDK server and the responses are parsed or processed to validate results and/or provide additional actions. The actions are all designed to be modular, to allow the tests to be randomized and reordered as needed. UPDATED to support Webtop 5.3 SP2 - SP4

Search for Snippets within the Repository Interrogation Utility Source

Koders.com have indexed the Repoint projects' source code on Sourceforge.net. This allows developers to search for code samples within the Repoint source code. The source code contains plenty of DFC code samples embedded in its source code.

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