Documentum Content Server - Retrieve Documents

arauf

Hi,

Some very basic questions about documentum API. What we need to do is retrieve documents stored within a particular documentum repository through a Microsoft .Net application from Documentum Content Server  - 6.0 SP1.

What is the simplest method to achieve this?

Is there a simulator available for developers who do not yet have access to an installed version of documentum server to test code?

I would appreciate any help you can provide to point me in the right direction.

Thanks.

msroth

To use the Documentum API (DFC) from .Net, you will need to install both the DFC (Java) and the Primary Interrupt Assembly (PIA) -- the .Net wrapper for the DFC.  You can avoid installing these two rather large code libraries if you use Documentum Foundation Services (DFS) -- Documentum's new web services interface.

In the DFC/PIA look at the IDfSysObject.getFile() method, that will probably get you what you want as far as the retrieval.

As for a repository simulator...well, most everyone I know just installs Content Server on a local VMware image and uses that as their local development environment.