The future of Documentum : XML

Posted by Stijn Van Vreckem on Sep 23, 2008

Last year EMC acquired X-Hive an XML-based solutions company.

Today I attended the Documentum 6.5 Briefing at the San Marco Village in Schelle BELGIUM where EMC unveiled their future products.

The 6.5 release is important to XAOP because it will target some extra XML services on the Documentum platform. XAOP is doing Documentum system integration projects with Ruby and Java. With the integration of X-Hive XML database in Documentum 6.5, I believe that it is time to update our XML Docpublisher project. 

The 3 pillars of the XAOP Docpublisher project aim to:

1. Promote reuse of content ( other XML Docbook parts, images, source code, ...).
2. Publish and control XML in an interactive environments like a Wiki
3. Have a context aware content application( the application knows who you are and what you are trying to achieve)

We are using the Docpublisher project at XAOP to publish documents. (proposals, procedures, technical deployment guides).(for more info on docpublisher click  here) 

I think it will be easy to run a Docpublisher implementation on Documentum 6.5. With the native XML database and the X-Hive logic engine. you can build context aware content applications.

Today, we are using subversion to store our XML and a MySQL database with a Lucene based fulltext index to generate context. I intend to investigate intensely the use of the XMLStore in Documentum 6.5 to store XML natively. So keep an eye out for more blog posts on this topic.