Which Documentum APIs should I use?

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Jesse James picture Jesse James · Sep 7, 2009 · Viewed 14.2k times · Source

There seems to be a number of options for interfacing to Documentum; WDK, DMCL, DFC, DFS, DQL, etc.

What else is there? When whould you use which interface? For .NET developers, for Java developers?

Answer

David Pierre picture David Pierre · Sep 22, 2009
  • WDK is for making websites.
  • DMCL is an old api for communicating with Documentum, in last versions it's only present as an emulation layer, so it should be avoided.
  • DFC is the preferred API to interact with Documentum, provides all functionality.
  • DFS is for using Documentum from webservices.
  • DQL is for querying, it's SQL-like.

DFC and WDK are Java, the others are probably usable from .Net

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