Documentum Foundation Services Data Model

We are very pleased to make the Documentum Foundation Services Data Model available to our developer community.

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.

EMC Documentum OEM Edition

The new EMC Documentum Content Server OEM Edition is a developer platform that combines repository, database and indexing services into an installable package, allowing you to add Content Management to your turnkey products. The whitepaper, An Embeddable Platform for Rapid Application Development introduces the new product, and is a great landscape overview for anyone new to Content Management. In the audio interview, Introducing Documentum Content Server OEM Edition, Matt Coblentz discusses the similarities and differences of the OEM and Enterprise Editions of Content Server, and how developers can leverage the platform.

Documentum 5.3 Architecture Overview

Based on a comprehensive, extensible, open, scalable and secure architecture that meets the needs of global, distributed enterprises, Documentum 5.3 comprises a set of integrated products and services that work together in varying combinations. From creation or capture, organization, and electronic storage through just-in-time delivery and archiving, the Documentum 5.3 end-to-end content management solution solves a range of strategic business issues. This document provides an overview of the Documentum 5.3 Architecture.

Best Practices for Developing Documentum Based Offerings

The Application Developer Program team is often asked by the developer community (partners and customers) about best practices for designing and developing on our platform. Partners also want to know how they can package their offerings into more shrink wrapped products that are easy to deploy at customers’ sites. To address this need, we have initiated this document about best practices while designing, developing, and packaging EMC Documentum based offerings.

Naming Convention Registry

In the Application Developer Program we work with large number partners who have an offering on Documentum platform.One of the common variance that partners fail to meet is around the naming convention.To address this name space issue and foster development of an ecosystem of partner products on Documentum platform, we are setting up Documentum Object Naming Convention Registry.

Howard Shao: Changing the World

In May of 2005 at the Momentum Europe conference in Barcelona, Spain, Neil Brien and Jes Wills of Blue Fish Development Group spoke to Howard Shao, Chief Technology Officer, Executive Vice President & Founder of Documentum and Senior Vice President of EMC Software. In this far-ranging and personal interview, Howard talks to Neil and Jes about the design decisions made around the Documentum platform. He discusses the issues that will affect the future of Documentum technology and about the influences EMC has on the platform. Finally, he discusses his personal vision and talks about what drives him. Click here to read the transcript or listen to the audio of the interview

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WDK Component Development Guidelines

Developer Program Exclusive!

Documentum engineers have gained considerable experience over the years developing reusable components for our client applications. In an effort to capture lessons learned from this experience, several key engineers collaborated to produce a collection of best practices and guidelines for WDK component development. These are now used internally by all Documentum engineers when developing and unit testing components.

We are pleased to make this component development guide available to our developer community. Please remember that the goal is to facilitate component reuse, extendibility, and quality; they are not intended to be an exhaustive list of requirements.

BOF Component Development Guidelines

Developer Program Exclusive!

Documentum engineers have gained considerable experience over the years developing reusable business objects for our client applications. In an effort to capture lessons learned from this experience, several key engineers collaborated to produce a collection of best practices and guidelines for business object development. These are now used internally by all Documentum engineers when developing and unit testing business objects.

We are pleased to make this development guide available to our developer community. Please remember that the goal is to facilitate component reuse, extendibility, and quality; they are not intended to be an exhaustive list of requirements.

Documentum Object-Relational Models

Developer Program Exclusive!

We are very pleased to make the object-relational model for Documentum 4i and 5 available to our developer community. This comprehensive diagram shows the complete set of eContent Server objects including cross-object relationships.

• Version 5, single page PDF (127KB)
• Version 5, 3x3 page PDF (200KB)
• Version 5, 6x6 page PDF (297KB)
• Version 4, 1 page PDF (61KB)
• Version 4, 1 page gif (400KB)

Documentum Architecture - Technical Overview

The ultimate architecture overview for every developer, architect, and administrator is here! It provides an exhaustive description of the Documentum 5 architecture including Documentum repository, content services, interfaces, clients, developer tools, and principles applied in designing Documentum 5.

Howard Shao's Developer Conference 2003 Keynote

Always one of the highlights of the annual Documentum Developer Conference, Howard once again gave the audience a taste of his vision for the future of enterprise content management with his keynote entitled "Uniting The World Through Content". Download an edited version of Howard's speech. (6.0MB).

ECM: The Future Today - by Howard Shao

To briefly summarize the previous columns, we outlined the key building blocks that support our strategy to connect people through the content they work on. I like to refer to this strategy as uniting the world through content. To bring this vision to reality, we must put into place the four building blocks of enterprise content management (ECM): Pervasive content management Complete content lifecycle Creation of content applications Connected content applications

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Documentum Portlets 4.5 for Sun ONE Portal Server 6.0

"Documentum Portlets" is a web-based application that enables Documentum functionality to be integrated into enterprise business portals. These services are built upon the WDK framework and packaged as a set of components or "portlets" that are configured, adapted, and exposed through a portal framework. The portlets include the following component functions:

• Cabinets: displays folders and their contents; allows user to navigate, check in/check out, contribute objects, update versions, etc.
• My Documents: displays objects recently created/revised/checked out; user can view object format and locked/checked out status, etc.
• My Folder: displays default user folders and content objects within these folders.
• My Workarea: lists the content objects that a user has checked out, and allows the user to view or edit the content.
• Inbox: access point from where users can forward, reject and dismiss workflow tasks, view notifications, etc.
• My Subscriptions: lists content and folders to which a portal user is subscribed.
• My Workflows: displays a list of active workflows and actions that can be taken on them.
• Search: helps users quickly locate content with a sophisticated, single-field search combining full-text and content attribute criteria.

The zip file contains the following files,

Note: The portlets are packaged as a license protected, downloadable zipped file. Download it now (14.6MB)

XML Center

Documentum 4i Internationalization (I18N) and Localization (L10N)

WDK Property File Translator: translate
For developers using Documentum WDK to create non-English web applications - translate is a tool which can be used to try out localized strings in your user interface. This is not designed to replace using a professional localization process, but if you would like to experiment with using localized strings in your custom WDK application, for testing or perhaps demonstration purposes, this tool can save you some time. It takes advantage of current web-based translation engines to populate the user interface with machine-generated translations.

Here's how it works: You can store any user interface string translations you have validated and want to keep, as a glossary. When the tool is run, it will first check the glossary to populate the UI with any of these pre-existing translated strings. Any strings without translations are placed in a cache file, which can then be either manually translated or linked to an on-line translation engine. The tool then picks up the changes in cache and propagates them to the correct language resource files.

Documentum 5 Internationalization and Localization
This white paper is intended to illustrate the Documentum solution for providing an internationalized, global platform upon which our customers can build multilingual enterprise content management solutions. The information contained in this paper covers the following:

• An overview of Documentum 5 internationalization and multilingualization capabilities
• Documentum's current practices and future plans in the area of localization policy and programs

Statement of Direction
This statement of direction starts with a definition of the terms internationalization and localization as they pertain to software products and continues with a description of Documentum 4i current capabilities and plans for future internationalization and localization enhancements.

Internationalizing and Localizing WDK-based Applications
This manual, and accompanying properties files, describe how to create, localize, and deploy localized Web applications based on the Documentum Web Development Kit version 4.2.2.

The Documentum eConnector for JDBC provides an industry-standard data access mechanism to the eContent server. With the JDBC driver, developers can access content and properties in both a Web Cache and in Docbases. The JDBC driver is available for free download to our customers and partners. Download the JDBC driver.

Tutorials

Using DTC Components Tutorial

A step-by-step tutorial covering the use of Desktop Client Components in your own custom applications. Read all about the benefits of DTC Components, how to invoke components, dealing with component return values, code samples and much much more. The tutorial also includes the full method syntax for RunComponentEx.