DFC How-to: Send email?

Question

This might seem like a very basic question to you experts but we have a use case where our customer needs to be notified via email when a particular type of document is saved to the repository. Note that this customer is NOT a Documentum user. We are trying to think of various ways to do this and one of the ways was of course Documentum BPM (trigger a workflow that will send email)
I also wanted to know, however if there was a way I could do it in a TBO or more likely a server method that I could call from the TBO.

* Are there DFC methods to send email to a non-Documentum user (we have the email addy)?
* We have enterprise web services to send email but we cannot call those from a TBO or server method. Am I correct?
* Lastly, any other ideas on how this could be accomplished?

TIA for all your replies!

aflowers001 · Accepted Answer

A TBO is just Java, so it can call a web service or any other Java class.

A good way of doing it would be to have an SBO that wraps up the email sending code, perhaps itself justa call to your emailing web service.

You can then call this SBO from within the TBO.