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Documentum Content Management Foundations: EMC Proven Professional Certification Exam E20-120 Study Guide

By : Pawan Kumar
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Documentum Content Management Foundations: EMC Proven Professional Certification Exam E20-120 Study Guide

By: Pawan Kumar

Overview of this book

This is a complete study guide including study material and practice questions to prepare for the EMC Proven Professional certification Exam E20-120. It can also serve Documentum beginners and practitioners as a handy guide and quick reference to the technical fundamentals that is fully up to date for Documentum 5.3. Beginners are introduced to concepts in a logical manner while practitioners can use it as a reference to jump to relevant concepts directly.EMC Documentum is a leading enterprise content management technology platform that helps enterprises to streamline the capture, processing, and distribution of business information including documents, records, e-mails, web content, images, reports, and digital assets. It can also automate entire business processes in accordance with business rules. EMC Proven Professional is an exam-based certification program, which introduced a new EMC Proven Content Management Application Developer (EMCAD) track in early 2007. The first exam in this track is Content Management Foundations (CMF) Associate-level Exam, with exam code E20-120, which tests knowledge about technical fundamentals of Documentum. This book is a study guide to help you prepare for this exam with hundreds of practice questions and an efficient exam-preparation strategy.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Documentum Content Management Foundations
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
Preface

Component and Development Layer


The Component and Development Layer, also known as Interface Layer, provides access to the repository content and the content services. This layer consists of predefined components and their application programming interfaces for enabling customization, integration, and application development. This layer consists of Documentum Foundation Classes (DFC), a set of standards-based APIs, Business Object Framework, WDK, Portlets, and Desktop components.

Documentum Foundation Classes

Documentum Foundation Classes (DFC) expose the Documentum object model as an object-oriented library for applications to use in the form of Java and Component Object Model (COM) libraries. DFC provides higher-level capabilities such as virtual document management, XML content-management, and business objects. Virtual documents combine component documents into a larger document. Virtual document management is described in the chapter Virtual Documents (Chapter 14).

Standards-Based...