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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

Communication Patterns


Operation of the Documentum platform involves basic communication patterns, which are repeated over and over. In order to understand these patterns, it is important to first identify the components that participate in such communication.

Key Components

The following figure shows the key components involved in communication with Content Server:

We are already familiar with the Content Server it manages the repository. Any content management communication ultimately needs to reach it.

Documentum Client Library (DMCL) is a low-level API that exposes full Content Server functionality. DMCL supports Remote Procedure Call (RPC) capability, enabling clients to connect to the Content Server without dealing with network details. Even though direct access to DMCL is available, it is not recommended for clients to directly interact with DMCL. Rather DFC wraps around DMCL and exposes a higher-level API for the clients to use.

DFC is implemented in Java and it also provides a Java...