The Information Intelligence Group (IIG) from EMC announced the general availability of Documentum xCP 2.0.
David Mennie from EMC posted a short xCP overview in the Documentum Blog at the end of November 2012.
Everyone with a EMC Powerlink account can download the software!
I will publish more articles and short tutorials about xCP2.0 in January 2013.
Merry Christmas from Mr. Crazyapple
The xCelerated Composition Platform version 2 is nearly a new development. There are so many changes between the first and the second version. Some features are not compatible to the old version. The following table displays the major changes including a small description.
| xCP 1.x | xCP 2.0 |
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| Structured Data Types | * Business Objects replaced SDT * BO are flexible, have relationships, events and are persist after the process completes |
| Types-bayed Objects | TBOs will still supported but unnecessary |
| User Interface | * old WDK will be unsupported * new ExtJS interface * RESTful Service interaction * Browser independent, becasue GUI based on HTML 5 (best performance with google Chrome) |
| Forms Adaptors | * Adaptors from the FormsBuilder are not longer supported * Data Services will be used they are more flexible (realtime, historical/ external) Queries |
| Taskspace | * Taskspace not longer GUI of xCP * Native xCP viewer * Zero footprint technology on all Browsers and Devices |
| * Big Data Services with Greenplum * Syncplicity (data synchronization between many devices and the repository with permission sets for each object) * easy connection to additional EMC Products (Captiva 7, xPression , etc) |
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| Process Debugger | The ProcessBuilder Debugger the will not be included in the 2.0 release. Dan said on the Momentum this year that the Debugger must be completely rewritten and this will take some time. But the deployment on the test environment is very fast and should not be a big obstacle. |
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Personal impressions of EMC’s hands-on LAB in Vienna.
The second lab session called “Advanced” on wednesday, 7th November 2012 was a deep preview of the new xCP user interface.
The xCP Designer is the new unified tool to build applications on top of the Documentum 7 environment.
The xCP Navigator
The first lab session called “Beginner” on Tuesday, 6th November 2012 allowed us a 2h preview of the new xCP2.0 Runtime (which is replacing TaskSpace) and the great xCP Designer. xCP Designer is the new unified tool and replaces the Process Builder, Forms Builder, Composer, Process Reporting Services and the TaskSpace configuration functions.
Business Objects represent the contentless objects in Documentum and are inherit from the dm_sysobject. IT’s comparable to the creation of object types in Composer with general attributes like label, value type and default value.
The expression language (SpEL) auto-completes contextual object-oriented phrases in dot-syntax. It is very easy to create complex expressions, because the auto-complete functionality allows only to use data in the correct relation.
Dan Ciruli told us that custom functions allow nearly endless flexibility and power.
Forms Adaptors have been completely replaced by Data Services. This Data Service includes Real Time, Historical, Full-Text or Task-List Queries. Real Time Queries are based on stateless objects and define GUI-driven a DQL query (you did not see any DQL in the wizard !). Second step is to create a results list and connect the output with the previously created data service instance.
A helpful functionality is to refresh the result set in realtime, the function is called “when an input value change”. So every time a customer types into the field the result area changed. Also available: refresh on page load.
Relationships are a very powerful function to bring data in a special context/relation to each other. Example: Country:City is a One to Many (1:n) relationship. Also available One to One (1:1), Many to One (n:1) and Many to Many (n:n) relationship.
