Issue #72 November 2007

Welcome to the November 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 on top of EMC developer news and events.

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D6 Web Services Challenge Winners Announced

The Documentum 6 (D6) team told us that developing and deploying content applications in a SOA framework would be easy.

So, we issued a D6 Web Services Challenge where developers were given up to 30 days to create applications using the new Documentum 6 Foundation Services. Customer, partner, and student developers registered from 30 countries, half of whom were new to Documentum - all to compete for $100,000 in cash.


Helena Starc from EMC and Terence McDevitt from Armedia with a $50K check for 1st place

Thanks to all who participated, and congrats to the winners:

  • 1st Place: Armedia (Anushka Munasinghe, Patrick Cotrona & Terence McDevitt)

  • 2nd Place: BNP Paribas (Rob Cleghorn, Alexandre Alvarez, Simon Green, Andrew McAllister, James Maughan)

  • 3rd Place: Alan Greendyk

  • Honorable Mention: Vikram Pant

Developer Challenge Winner Webcast

Learn more about EMC Documentum 6 Web Services Developer Challenge winning applications and how they were built. Select developers will showcase their winning applications and answer your questions. Register for this complimentary webcast. December 12, 2007 at 10:00 am PT/1:00 pm ET. All are welcome!

Momentum Monaco - Educational and Productive

Momentum Monaco was a great success, with over 1500 attendees from 49 countries and 140 sessions including 13 in the first ever Software Developer Track in Europe. Session presentations are now available for download for paid attendees. View official event photos and unofficial event photos -- post your's there as well..

Featured Interview: Patricia Florissi

Patricia Florissi is the Chief Technology Officer of the EMC Resource Management Software Group. In this audio interview, she talks about managing storage, network and application resources, as well as what Resource Management means to developers, now and in the future.

Featured Blog: The Storage Anarchist

Barry Burke writes about advanced storage and technology, from his unique viewpoint.

 

EMC implementations of SNIA's SMI-S

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is dedicated to driving future storage industry standards, best practices, and education. Read More

 

Securing Applications with RSA Key Manager

RSA Key Manager 2.1 (RKM) is used by EMC developers and customers to centralize and manage encryption keys. Read More

EMC World 2008 - The ultimate education forum

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From The Editor

In his latest column, Challenges, our editor, Alan Z. talks about the challenge of evolving the EDN to serve the needs of our communities.
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Application Portfolio

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New on Resource Management

Smarts Events vs. Notifications

The Smarts products are based on the Domain Manager Toolkit (DMT). There are two systems for alerting subscribers something has happened: events and notifications. The event mechanism is built into the Domain Manger (DM), while notifications are implemented as a set of classes on top of a DM. There are two distinct "alarm" systems within Smarts products. The two - events and notifications - have very different characteristics.

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New on Content Management

Featured Blog: Laurence Hart

In his Word of Pie blog, Laurence Hart ponders about Life, the Universe, and Documentum. The blog is meant to be a place to learn and share thoughts about the Documentum product line, Enterprise Content Management, and the world around them.

The Service Station: Upgrading Documentum Installations

The Service Station column is 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. In this issue, Laurence Hart talks about upgrading Documentum installatons.

Documentum Content Server 6 Object Relational Diagram

We are very pleased to make the object-relational model for Documentum Content Server 6 (including SP1) available to our developer community. This comprehensive diagram shows the complete set of Content Server objects including cross-object relationships.

Featured Tool: Contribution NLS Translator Tool for Documentum

Mitch Bird submitted this utility which assists in the creation of localized NLS files not included in the Documentum Language Packs, and for all of your custom applications and objects, so long as you used NLS files for their strings

Documentum Foundation Services (DFS) Code Samples

This is a searchable version of the code samples that get distributed with the DFS SDK. Use the EDN deep code search to look for code snippets within the samples or download individual files or download individual code files.

D6 DFC Trace Performance Analysis

The two scripts traceD6.awk and trace_rpc_histD6.awk are provided to analyze Documentum D6 DFC trace to identify causes of performance issues.

Documentum System Sizing Tool - 5.3

Use this interactive Excel spreadsheet to estimate your hardware resource requirements. Just input your site-specific information including the number of users, types of and number of documents, and platform details and the spreadsheet will estimate your memory, disk space and CPU needs. Hardware resource estimates given in the spreadsheet are derived from actual Documentum performance benchmarks and analysis. The spreadsheet is based on the document, Documentum System Sizing Guide. See the guide for details on the methodology used to determine the estimates. Updated with the latest October 2007 spreadsheet.

Getting Started with Documentum 6 - Resources Index

This page is a quick link list to recently posted Documentum 6 content. These items can help you prepare for, and take advantage of, the new features.

D6 Distributed Content Configuration and Troubleshooting

This document provides guidance on the configuration, monitoring and troubleshooting of the Distributed Content products including ACS (Accelerated Content Server), BOCS (Branch Office Caching Server) and DMS (Documentum Messaging Server).

Workflow and Lifecycle Essentials

From Developer Support: Content Server provides powerful features for implementing business process with the stored digital assets. These features are Lifecycle and Workflow. Apparently they may appear similar from their ability to invoke predefined server process while the document passes through different lifecycle stages or workflow activities.

Audio Interview: WDK Automated Test Framework

In this audio interview Alan Zenreich sits down with Chi Wong, Lynda Wong, and Randy Hodge to discuss, the WDK Automated Test Framework and how you can use it to test your WDK based applications.

DFE Design Pattern: When to use registered tables versus object types with no super type

Using Documentum object types with no supertype has several advantanges over using registered tables. However, there are some situations when registered tables should be used. This article discusses the reasons for using each approach.

SDC Session: Documentum Architecting 3D: The Do's and Don'ts of Design

In this session presented at the Software Developers Conference, Johnny Gee covers different aspects of content management application design. Topics include: object modeling, data dictionary, folder hierarchy, naming conventions, lifecycles, security, importing, and implementation tips.

Audio Interview: Getting started with Documentum development - Johnny Gee

Interviewed at the Software Developers Conference at EMC World '07, Johnny Gee talks about getting started with Documentum development, and resources available to developers.

WDK Automated Test Framework - Development Guides

The WDK Automated Test Framework Development Guides are now available. These guides are for developers who want to extend the WDK Automated Test Framework and who are familiar with WDK. Topics covered include an overview of the WDK ATF Architecture; and Enhancing Additional Functionality.

Webtop 5.3 SP5 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 SP5.

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