Issue #70 August 2007

Welcome to the August 2007 edition of the EMC Developer Network newsletter, a monthly update for 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 developer news and events.

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D6 Web Services Contest

Documentum 6 has been announced, and with it full support for Services Oriented Architectures (SOA) and Web Services. Documentum 6 is the essential platform for quickly building content enabled business applications. With Documentum Foundation Services, developing and deploying ECM applications in a SOA framework couldn't get any easier.

How easy is it? Very! And we want you to prove it. To get you motivated, we’re offering a first prize of $50,000 with a total $100,000 in prizes! Now that we've got your attention, click here to find out eligibility requirements and how to enter.

WDK Automated Test Framework - Now available

Available for download today, only from EDN!

Are you a WDK developer interested in:
- Increasing ongoing application build quality?
- Accelerating the testing of customizations and configurations across service packs?
- Preparing for the upgrade to D6?

The new WDK Automated Test Framework delivers powerful capabilities to record, playback, and verify automated test suites for your WDK-based applications. Completely integrated into the WDK itself, the WDK Automated Test Framework provides these capabilities all through an easy to use, web-based UI console.

Only available via the EMC Developer Network (EDN), the WDK Automated Test Framework can drastically improve your application quality and reduce testing burden during service pack and release upgrades. Click here to learn more, download today, and accelerate your WDK application deployment!

To ask questions and trade useful information about this new tool, please visit the Test Framework EDN Forum!

Featured Blog - Robin East

Robin's 'Inside Documentum' blog is a great technical resource for developers, focusing on the inner workings of Documentum, and how to improve performance.

 

Software Developer Conference & Momentum Monaco 2007

For the first time ever in Europe, an EMC Software Developer track of the most popular Content Management topics from Software Developer Conference(SDC) @ EMC World 07 will be at Momentum Monaco 2007 November 5 - 8. Experts will cover DFS, Eclipse-based Composer, Webtop Search, Aspect Attributes, Performance & Scalability, Global Communities, XML, Rapid Application Development, WDK, EMC platform architectural direction, & more. Check out the recently released detailed agenda. You are also invited to the popular "Meet the Experts", available as a special interactive session. Early-bird registration (and savings!) until August 17.

Documentum 6 Composer Initial Deployment Program (IDP)

EMC Customer Deployability is pleased to announce an Initial Deployment Program (IDP) for Documentum 6 Composer, which is a new Eclipse-based IDE that provides a unified environment for creating and maintaining EMC Documentum application elements. We are seeking existing EMC customers and partners who will actively participate in the IDP. The qualified participants must be application developers who will use D6 Composer to develop Eclipse plug-in for custom artifacts. Read more ...

From The Editor

In his latest column, Let the Games Begin , our Editor, Alan Z. talks about his path to SOA enlightenment, contests, and new tools.
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Off the Beaten Track

The latest column revisits the classic Producer-Consumer scenario and multithreading.
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Application Portfolio

The Application Portfolio is the place to find offerings that have achieved the "Designed for EMC" logo designation – a mark of value and quality EMC customers insist on.

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New Audio Interviews

Migrating to WDK6 - Randy Hodge and Chee Wong, EMC Corporation

Randy and Chee talk about new WDK6 functionality.  They discuss the new desktop look and feel; performance improvements, persistent preferences mechanisms, and new tools for configuring WDK.

Celerra APIs - John Hayden, EMC Corporation

Celerra provides various APIs that allow access to its functionality. John speaks about the XML API, which is a management API and the FileMover API, which allows access to ILM features, and how these APIs are used being used.

Networker API - Richard Reitmeyer, EMC Corporation

Richard Reitmeyer talks about existing and potential APIs that developers can use to interact with Networker backup and management facilities.

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New Resource Management Content

ControlCenter APIs

In this audio interview, Chris and Anu talk about the ways developers are using the ControlCenter StorageScope APIs for reporting, intelligent capacity planning, and configuration management.

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New Content Management Content

Getting Ready For D6

Documentum 6 (D6) is coming soon. We've created a section on the Content Management Developer Center's home page for listing D6 specific content that can help you prepare for, and take advantage of, the new features.

Seven Jobs Every Documentum Developer Should Know and Use

Development environments often become corrupted and unusable due to the abuse they endure as temporary and experimental spaces. Content Server provides housekeeping jobs that-if properly used, can prevent development environments from becoming dysfunctional. There are seven jobs that every developer should know and run regularly in their development environment to ensure that Docbases stay clean, lean and referentially intact. Scott Roth from Flatirons Solutions contributed this paper, where he discusses these jobs, the value of their capabilities, and recommends scheduling and use .

DFC Operations

From Developer Support for Content Management: In this article Umair Nauman discusses the fundamental concepts regarding DFC operations.

Grokking the Paradigm - a WDK tutorial

Understanding Webtop's design decisions and making small changes to the interface are great ways to get started with the Web Development Kit (WDK). Dennis Dawson continues his series of articles and narrated slide decks to give new developers a gentle, plain English introduction to WDK customizations. The newest installments wrap up the series by covering Changing Column Layouts and Creating Custom Components.

ECIS Koders Code Search Adapter

The Koders Code Search Adapter is used to connect ECI Services to the Koders search engine (http://www.koders.com). The adapter contains a backend on the EMC developer network code search, which uses the Koders search engine (http://codesearch.developer.emc.com/). This adapter is packaged as a standalone Adapter, including the source code. It can used as an example of a complex Adapter or customized for specific needs.

Repository Interrogation Utility

The Repository Interrogation Utility allows a user to navigate repositories, perform a properties dump, view the type tree of a repository and run DQL or xDQL queries. The utility now includes some additional features such as integration with the 'Object Reference Manual', a listing of SBOs and detection of registered TBOs. The utility is available as both a standalone application and an Eclipse plugin. The standalone application can be used without the need to know or install the whole Eclipse IDE.

UPDATE: A development build of the next version of Repoint has been released. The next version has improved query view performance and a changed repository browser. Read more...

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