Jerry Silver says a farewell to the xCP Developer Edition

The preconfigured developer environment will not be available for the latest xCP version 2.0.

The Developer Edition for xCP 1.5 is still available and supported.

EMC focused their strategy to delivering solutions with a minimum of code like xCP 2 and D2 version 4.0

Perhaps the Developer Edition will return in one of the future releases.

Documentum, xCP
2013-01-24Permalink

Merry Christmas from EMC.

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

 

 

 

Documentum, xCP
2012-12-07Permalink

The major changes of xCP 2.0

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
Structured Data Types* Business Objects replaced SDT
* BO are flexible, have relationships, events and are persist after the process completes
Types-bayed ObjectsTBOs 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)
Process DebuggerThe 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.

 

Momentum Vienna 2012

Momentum Vienna 2012

 

2012-11-20Permalink

The xCP 2.0 Interface

The xCP 2.0 Interface

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 new interface of the xCP Designer

The xCP Designer is the new unified tool to build applications on top of the Documentum 7 environment.

The xCP Navigator

  • The Application Settings includes Model, Role, Parameters, Endpoints, Permission Sets, Email Templates and (general) settings. This folder has the functionality of the TaskSpace Configuration-Page and Documentum Composer.
    Very helpful is the new “Endpoints” functionality where all connection parameter to external system or repositories are stored. In xCP2.0 exists only one central page to administrate all login and connection data.
  • The Object Models and Processes represents the ProcessBuilder and Composer features.
    The Object Models area includes the Business Objects, Content, Folders, Picklist and Relationship function.
  • The User Interface and Data Services replaces the FormsBuilder and the awful Adaports from xCP 1.x.
    The User Interface section includes the functionality to create and manage a default Master page and runtime Application UI, Business Object UI, Content UI, Folder UI or Process UI. The Master UI has the same functionality like the master page in Microsoft’s Power Point.
    Data Services is a collection of queries to create data-based widgest. It’s possible to gather objects from the repository (realtime), historical data, indexed content and tasks.

 

 

2012-11-19Permalink