The Documentum Developer Conference is geared toward project planners, system architects and applications developers. Our aim is to provide you with the tools and information you need to build powerful and innovative content management applications on the Documentum platform. This year’s conference will focus on building applications with Documentum’s component-based architecture, migration to Documentum 5, eRoom for developers, new and emerging technologies, and, of course, all of the basics; XML, DFC 5, Web Publisher, and more.
The Documentum Developer Conference provides you with almost four full days of comprehensive instruction and is intended for all levels of Documentum developers. New for this year is an introductory track from our Education Services group and a track on best practices delivered by our Consulting staff. We'll also be continuing two programs that were very successful last year; the Partner Symposium and the Poster Session.
The cost of attending this unique event is only $2495.00.
We want to help you make the most of your Developer Conference experience. Some of the more advanced sessions assume a certain working knowledge of the subject mater. For these sessions we have outlined the prerequisite knowledge or suggested course work. To help you achieve the desired level of preparation Documentum Customer Education offers a wide array of standard enrollment classes.
| Monday 6/16/03 8:30 AM |
Application Development Overview (2 hours)
Explore the many options available for developing custom content management applications with Documentum on both desktop and Web platforms. An overview of the various technologies including DFC and WDK, along with their basic programming concepts will be presented.
Prerequisites
Mandatory: Basic understanding and experience in programming principles
Suggested Training Course: Documentum Technical Fundamentals
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Introduction to DFC 5 (4 hours)
This session includes lab time. This session provides an overview of the Documentum Foundations Classes (DFC), demonstrating how the DFC is used in Documentum products. Participants will be introduced to session management, type-related interfaces and the operations package of DFC 5.
Prerequisites
Suggested Training Course: Documentum Technical Fundamentals
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Introduction to WDK (4 hours)
This session is intended for developers who have a familiarity with the Documentum server functionality but have not yet started programming with WDK. We'll introduce the WDK architecture, the programming model and look at application examples.
Prerequisites
Mandatory: Experience developing JSP applications. An understanding of Documentum server APIs, and a working knowledge of the Java programming language.
Suggested Training Courses: Documentum Technical Fundamentals;
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| Monday 6/16/03 9:00 AM |
Partner Symposium Session 1
Select any one of the following partner presentations;
Customizing WebPublisher 5
AJ Whitney
Blue Fish Group
Building an integrated solution with eContent Server and eRoom.
Jeff Rosler
Flatirons
Integrating a Custom Application into Webtop
Laurence Hart
Infodata Systems
Please select this option if you will be attending the Partner Symposium rather than attending one of the instructor led courses.
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Monday 6/16/03 10:15 AM |
Partner Symposium Session 2
Select any one of the following partner presentations;
Integrating Document-Centric Applications with Documentum 5
Matthew Brown
Workshare
Web Services and Beyond...
Mark DuBrock
Fujitsu Consulting
Virtual "XML" Documents in Documentum 5 with Arbortext and .NET
Jason Jolley
Entology
Please select this option if you will be attending the Partner Symposium rather than attending one of the instructor led courses.
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| Monday 6/16/03 10:30 AM |
Introduction to Customizing Documentum Desktop (2 hours)
This session will provide an understanding of customizing Documentum Desktop, as well as define the resources available to the developer. These include Desktop components, services, widgets and the DFC.
Prerequisites
Mandatory: Solid Visual Basic programming experience
Suggested Training Courses: Documentum Technical Fundamentals
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| Monday 6/16/03 11:30 AM |
Partner Symposium Session 3
Select any one of the following partner presentations;
Migration of EDMS98 Applications to Webtop
Lewis Taylor
IBM
Using Workflows To Increase Organizational Efficiency With Implementation Of Parametric Decision Making
Rodrigo A. Figueroa
Domain Systems
Rules Based XML Document Assembly
John Koepp
DeepBridge
Please select this option if you will be attending the Partner Symposium rather than attending one of the instructor led courses.
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| Tuesday 6/17/03 8:30 AM |
Application Tuning (4 hours)
includes WDK performance
Prerequisites
Recommended: This topic will benefit anyone working with Documentum 5 Application
Suggested Training Courses: System Administration |
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Best Practices for a Validated Environment (4 hours)
Best practices for Documentum design and development in validated environments. Learn how to design your application to minimize the validation effort, how to minimize the need to re-validate by identifying the common triggers, and what to consider when migrating. Also, learn about features of new and upcoming Documentum products that have an impact on validation.
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DFC Seminar/Advanced Topics (4 hours)
This session is a small, highly interactive group discussion covering Advanced DFC Topics. Attendees will submit suggested topics in advance. Seminar leaders will select topics and navigate the group through each topic, developing solutions along the way.
Prerequisites
Mandatory: Attendees should have a good working knowledge of DFC.
Recommended: Those starting out with the DFC will get great insight to the depth of the DFC's capabilities.
Suggested Training Courses: DFC: Beginning DFC |
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Getting Started with Web Content Management (4 hours)
Just starting to think about setting up your web content management system? This session will describe the WCM components and show you how they come together to create a complete WCM solution.
Prerequisites
Mandatory: Familiarity with HTML
Suggested Training Course: Documentum Technical Fundamentals
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Rich Media Overview (4 hours)
This session includes lab time. Get a complete introduction to the management of rich media including Media Services and Digital Asset Manager. This hands-on session will demonstrate how to solve media management problems with Documentum and how to enrich and media-enable your applications with Documentum Media Services.
Prerequisites
Mandatory: A working knowledge of the Java programming language..
Suggested Training Courses: Documentum Technical Fundamentals, DFC: Beginning DFC
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XML Overview (4 hours)
This session includes lab time. Introduction to XML concepts including transformation, chunking, and DTD/schema validation. Overview of Documentum support for XML. Discussion will include examples of how XML is used for content management.
Prerequisites
Mandatory: Familiarity with XML concepts
Suggested Training Courses: Documentum Technical Fundamentals.
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| Tuesday 6/17/03 1:30 PM |
Application Development Overview (2 hours)
Explore the many options available for developing custom content management applications with Documentum on both desktop and Web platforms. An overview of the various technologies including DFC and WDK, along with their basic programming concepts will be presented.
Prerequisites
Mandatory: Basic understanding and experience in programming principles
Suggested Training Course: Documentum Technical Fundamentals
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Business Objects Framework (4 hours)
This session includes lab time. This session will introduce the components, framework, and methodology required to implement Documentum Business Objects including details on compatibility with existing DFC based applications. A preview of the new features with the next release will be provided. Examples from the Developer Program web site will be used to illustrate practical uses of BOs.
Prerequisites
Mandatory: Attendees need to have a good working knowledge of DFC.
Suggested Training Courses: DFC 5: Advanced
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I18N and L10N: What every developer needs to know (2 hours)
I18N and L10N - The Big Picture. How does it all fit together? This session gives an overview of how Documentum clients interact with the Content Server. Learn about UNICODE support in Documentum clients, I18N rules for customizing Documentum Desktop and WDK-based applications, and how to ensure cross client interoperability. We will also cover the new internationalization features of Documentum 5.
Prerequisites
Recommended: Come armed with your questions for internationalization and globalization - this is your opportunity to run them past the experts!
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Implementing Documentum Workflows - A Consulting Perspective (2 hours)
This session includes lab time. Presented by a Documentum consultant with extensive
workflow implementation experience, this session will provide an
overview of how Documentum workflows have been used to solve practical
business issues including gathering workflow history, cleaning up
stalled workflows, and programmatically managing tasks.
Prerequisites
Mandatory: A basic technical understanding of Documentum and workflow.
Suggested Training Course: Workflow Manager |
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Introduction to eRoom Enterprise and eRoom Development (4 hours)
This session offers an introduction to the eRoom Digital Workplace including the out-of-the-box integration with the Documentum Content Server. Following this brief introduction, the bulk of the session will give a comprehensive overview of the main platform features of eRoom including eRoom UI branding, the core server-side API, extending the core product with custom actions, event handling mechanisms and XML capabilities.
Prerequisites
Suggested Training Course: Getting Started with eRoom either instructor-led or self-paced web-based training
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Introduction to WDK (4 hours)
This session is intended for developers who have a familiarity with the Documentum server functionality but have not yet started programming with WDK. We'll introduce the WDK architecture, the programming model and look at application examples.
Prerequisites
Mandatory: Experience developing JSP applications. An understanding of Documentum server APIs, and a working knowledge of the Java programming language.
Suggested Training Courses: Documentum Technical Fundamentals;
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Web Content Management 101 (4 hours)
This session includes lab time. Learn how to design, develop and deploy a Web site from start to finish. One of our most seasoned Web Content Management consultants will take you through the analysis process followed by a hands-on practical exercise.
Prerequisites
Mandatory: A basic technical understanding of Documentum product architecture including Web Publisher and WebCache.
Suggested Training Courses: Documentum Technical Fundamentals, Web Publisher.
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| Tuesday 6/17/03 3:30 PM |
Introducing Records Management (2 hours)
With the acquisition of TrueArc, the Documentum content management solution now includes world-class records management. You'll get an overview of records management technology and how it complements Documentum's technology offerings.
Prerequisites
Suggested Training Courses: Records Manager Installation, Records Manager: System Configuration and Records Administration
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Introduction to Customizing Documentum Desktop (2 hours)
This session will provide an understanding of customizing Documentum Desktop, as well as define the resources available to the developer. These include Desktop components, services, widgets and the DFC.
Prerequisites
Mandatory: Solid Visual Basic programming experience
Suggested Training Courses: Documentum Technical Fundamentals
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Taking Advantage of Server 5 Features (2 hours)
This session will cover new 5.1 and 5.2 server features including new server method execution paradigms and how to take advantage of them, authentication plug-ins, using SSL communication channels, using encrypted file stores, user authentication thresholds, creating and maintaining full text indexes, work in progress indexes and migrating to VDK 4.5, and comprehensive audit trail events.
Suggested Training Courses: Technical Fundaments, System Administration for Documentum 5 (verify with presenter)
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| Wednesday 6/18/03 8:30 AM |
Architecting XML Solutions (4 hours)
Presented by a Documentum consultant with extensive XML implementation experience, this session will provide an overview of how Documentum can be used to solve critical business issues followed by a step-by-step approach to achieving success. Topics will include a high-level overview of Documentum's XML capabilities, a survey of how XML is being used today, identifying and minimizing risk factors, design considerations, and other best practices.
Prerequisites
Recommended: Experience designing a successful Documentum CM solution, a broad understanding of Documentum’s XML capabilities, and a broad understanding of XML, XSL/T and XSL/FO.
Suggested Training Courses: Documentum Technical Fundamentals, XML and Content Management with Documentum 5
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Best Practices for a Validated Environment (4 hours)
Best practices for Documentum design and development in validated environments. Learn how to design your application to minimize the validation effort, how to minimize the need to re-validate by identifying the common triggers, and what to consider when migrating. Also, learn about features of new and upcoming Documentum products that have an impact on validation.
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DFC Seminar/Advanced Topics (4 hours)
This session is a small, highly interactive group discussion covering Advanced DFC Topics. Attendees will submit suggested topics in advance. Seminar leaders will select topics and navigate the group through each topic, developing solutions along the way.
Prerequisites
Mandatory: Attendees should have a good working knowledge of DFC.
Recommended: Those starting out with the DFC will get great insight to the depth of the DFC's capabilities.
Suggested Training Courses: DFC: Beginning DFC |
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Hands-on with WebPublisher 5 (4 hours)
This session includes lab time. In this session you will learn how to leverage new and improved features in Documentum's latest WDK-based application, WebPublisher. You will get a brief overview of the goals, functions, and features of WebPublisher 5; a discussion of migration tips & tricks from previous versions of WebPublisher; and a summary of the performance enhancements. Following will be four hands-on labs where you can try out the product yourself. The labs will focus on getting familiar with WebPublisher product infrastructure, creating and modifying roles and associated functions, customizing the WebPublisher Editor with new components, and building and exporting taxonomies to drive your website
Prerequisites
Mandatory: Familiarity with JAVA programming language.
Suggested Training Courses: Web Publisher 4.3
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WDK 5.0: Advanced Topics (4 hours)
This session includes lab time. Learn how to extend the WDK framework including advanced component architecture and beyond. Investigate common customer requirements and then customize WDK components, actions, controls and other parts of the framework to solve them.
Prerequisites
Mandatory: This is an in-depth session so we suggest attendance at the 'Developing WDK-Powered Applications' training course or a very good understanding of JAVA and attendance at the 'WDK Application Customization' DevCon session.
Suggested Training Courses: Building Web Applications w/ WDK 5, Developing WDK-Powered Applications |
| Wednesday 6/18/03 1:30 PM |
Application Tuning (4 hours)
includes WDK performance
Prerequisites
Recommended: This topic will benefit anyone working with Documentum 5 Application
Suggested Training Courses: System Administration |
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Business Objects Framework (4 hours)
This session includes lab time. This session will introduce the components, framework, and methodology required to implement Documentum Business Objects including details on compatibility with existing DFC based applications. A preview of the new features with the next release will be provided. Examples from the Developer Program web site will be used to illustrate practical uses of BOs.
Prerequisites
Mandatory: Attendees need to have a good working knowledge of DFC.
Suggested Training Courses: DFC 5: Advanced
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Enterprise Content Management Search and Classification (2 hours)
Architecture analysis and integration of enterprise search and classification services. This session will focus on existing DCTM search and classification products in the Content Server, collaboration and records management services, as well as discussing integrations with third party products.
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eRoom and Documentum ECM: The Combined Solution (2 hours)
Through a number of case studies, we will illustrate the power of the combined eRoom and Documentum ECM solution. We'll look at the out-of-the-box eRoom Enterprise product as well as the details of the API support for the integration points. Additional combined solutions achieved through extensions to the eRoom Enterprise and core Documentum products will be presented and will include topics such as workflow integration and use of the WDK components.
Prerequisites
Recommended: The Introduction to eRoom Enterprise and eRoom Development session or equivalent
Suggested Training Courses: eRoom API Development Education - COM
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WDK Application Customization (4 hours)
This session includes lab time. Learn how WDK supports rapid application development through configuration of existing clients and through the development of custom applications. We’ll look at Webtop, WebPublisher and Documentum Administrator as examples of WDK-based Web clients. New features found in the upcoming release of WDK will be also be discussed.
Prerequisites
Mandatory: A working knowledge of Java classes and JSPs; an understanding of DFC.
Recommended: We have found that the structure and clarity of the new WDK model does enable non-Java programmers to understand at least the basic concepts behind the WDK.
Suggested Training Courses: DFC: Beginning DFC, WDK: Building Web Applications with WDK 5
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XML Special Topics (2 hours)
For this session, we've identified a collection of questions that appear frequently on the XML Yahoo!Groups discussion forum. We'll present solutions to these questions and provide time for further discussion. We'll also look at new XML features in DDS.
Prerequisites
Mandatory: Familiarity with XML concepts.
Suggested Training Courses: XML and Content Management with Documentum 5
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| Wednesday 6/18/03 3:30 PM |
CIS Taxonomy Development (2 hours)
In-depth instruction on technical and organizational development practices for taxonomy creation and maintenance. Includes an introduction to CIS 5.2 Taxonomy Manager, staged and production taxonomy development, taxonomy conversion and import, TEF description, and automating category definition
Prerequisites
Recommended: Reading up on the features of CIS and the general principals of taxonomies and auto attributing will help participants understand the value of CIS.
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Enabling Enterprise Portals with the Documentum Content Platform (2 hours)
To be successful, portal-based content applications (""C Apps"") including PartnerNet, CustomerNet, EmployeeNet, or ""AnyNet"" applications require a strong content infrastructure and relevant development tools. Learn how Documentum's applications, content services and development environments are used to develop ECM and portal publishing solutions for your enterprise portal initiatives. In this session, we will cover case studies and the associated architectures and technologies used to provide personalized, targeted, and unified content solutions that power portal-based C Apps.
Prerequisites
Mandatory: None
Recommended: Attendees should read articles on the Developer Program Web site about portal integrations, WDK 5 and WCM
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eRoom XML (2 hours)
This session includes lab time. This session covers the XML capabilities native in the core eRoom product. Included is a discussion of the eRoom XML data model and eXQL, the eRoom XML query language. The XML API features are available both server-side and remote via HTTP and SOAP; both invocation techniques are covered. A number of use cases will be presented.
Prerequisites
Recommended: The Introduction to eRoom Enterprise and eRoom Development session or equivalent
Suggested Training Courses: eRoom API Development Education - XML /SOAP
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| Thursday 6/19/03 7:30 AM |
Advanced Development with Desktop 5 (4 hours)
This jam-packed session includes tips on migrating from EDMS'98 to Desktop 5, high latency, dynamic component delivery and component versioning and use of business objects in Desktop 5. EDMS migration, component versioning, component download, use of business objects in Desktop.
EDMS'98 migration to Desktop 5: Migration from EDMS'98 Routers to Desktop 5 Workflow is eased by the addition of two new Workflow features: 1) the ability to create Sequential Ad hoc Workflows and 2) a new Workflow Reporting component. Desktop 5 is a Unicode application that supports multi-language Docbases but EDMS'98 customizations do not support Unicode data. Learn what precautions to take and how Unicode affects EMDS'98/Workspace customizations.
High Latency: Desktop 5 leverages Documentum's new persistent caching APIs to provide significant improvements in end user response times in high latency environments. Learn what operations you can expect improvements in as well as how you can use the persistent caching APIs in your own custom Desktop applications to improve performance of your custom code.
Dynamic Component Delivery (DCD) and Component Versioning: Dynamic Component Download has been re-architected in Desktop 5 to overcome Microsoft imposed limitations present in previous releases. Users no longer need local Administrator privilege to use this feature and support for additional package types is available. In addition a new feature called Component Versioning provided in Documentum Application Builder 5 enables you to designate whether a component package is intended for use with Desktop 5 or DTC 4.3.x. Learn how to use these features to deliver on demand, customizations to the end-user machine.
Use of Business Objects in Desktop 5: Business Objects allow you to create a layer of customization that can apply across all clients including Desktop 5. Learn how to access the powerful Business Objects framework from within both the Desktop 5 core product as well as your customizations.
Prerequisites
Mandatory: Knowledge of Visual Basic or C++
and the DTC development model
Recommended: This will be an in-depth look at Desktop Client development techniques and is not intended for attendees new to the Desktop Client.
Suggested Training Courses: Customizing the Desktop Client
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Content Distribution Services (4 hours)
Come prepared to get a technical overview of Documentum Content Distribution Services (CDS) including installation, configuration, and customization. You will get a description of the architecture and application server interaction. We will discuss customizing content offers, creating custom JSP templates, and using the ICE protocol for trusted content delivery. You will also get a preview of the Content Exchange Services platform architecture for aggregation, collaboration, distribution, and a discussion of integration/customization technologies.
Prerequisites
Recommended: The technical white paper for CDS, available on the Developer Program Web site.
Suggested Training Course: Content Distribution Services
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DFC Seminar/Advanced Topics (4 hours)
This session is a small, highly interactive group discussion covering Advanced DFC Topics. Attendees will submit suggested topics in advance. Seminar leaders will select topics and navigate the group through each topic, developing solutions along the way.
Prerequisites
Mandatory: Attendees should have a good working knowledge of DFC.
Recommended: Those starting out with the DFC will get great insight to the depth of the DFC's capabilities.
Suggested Training Courses: DFC: Beginning DFC |
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Migration Best Practices (4 hours)
Lessons learned from the field on various aspects of migration.
Prerequisites
Suggested Training Courses: What's New in Documentum 5
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WDK 5.0: Advanced Topics (4 hours)
This session includes lab time. Learn how to extend the WDK framework including advanced component architecture and beyond. Investigate common customer requirements and then customize WDK components, actions, controls and other parts of the framework to solve them.
Prerequisites
Mandatory: This is an in-depth session so we suggest attendance at the 'Developing WDK-Powered Applications' training course or a very good understanding of JAVA and attendance at the 'WDK Application Customization' DevCon session.
Suggested Training Courses: Building Web Applications w/ WDK 5, Developing WDK-Powered Applications |
