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Enterprise Content Management SDK (ECMSDK) is a robust and flexible runtime and development platform for building demanding content management applications. The features and capabilities of EMCSDK are designed to help developers bring enterprise-scalable content management-based applications to market faster and better than with any other platform. ECMSDK provides a set of Java APIs that developers can use to customize or extend the product's core functionality in numerous ways to build comprehensive enterprise-scale database solutions.

These notes are additional to the ECMSDK Installation Guide and supersede information supplied in that Guide.

The information in this document is current as of the date of publication.

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About this Release

This version of ECMSDK 2.0 is a full ECMSDK release, and can be applied as a cumulative patch on top of a previous ECMSDK 1.0 release.

ECMSDK 2.0 is architecturally compatible with the latest middleware versions. It contains an updated set of APIs that are JDK 1.7 compliant, and also contains tools to create an ECMSDK 2.0 schema that is compatible with these APIs. This release should be reviewed carefully by development teams that have built custom applications with previous versions of Oracle CM SDK, as there are a number of differences between this version and the previous Oracle CM SDK versions. This release implements the features and bug fixes listed below.

New Features

The following features have been introduced with this release:

Features New in 2.0

Feature# Category Description Note
ECMSDK-44 Repository New Action and Activity Framework for building IoT or Social driven applications 1
ECMSDK-24
 Installation
 Dependency to Oracle Database Client installation removed
  
ECMSDK-31
 Installation
 New custom_classes directory for custom development class overwrites included in the CLASSPATH
  
ECMSDK-34 Installation Single command installation process for clean installation and patching  
ECMSDK-37 Installation Added support for Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)  

Features New in 1.0

Feature# Category Description
  Repository New Social features such as like, follow, comments, status messages as well as activity streams and notifications
  Environment Support for Java 1.7
  Environment Support for Oracle Database 12c
  Environment Support for Oracle WebLogic Server 12c
  Environment Support for GlassFish Server 4.1
  Environment Support for Apache Tomcat 8

Bugs Fixed

The following bugs have been fixed with this release:

Bugs Fixed in 2.0

Bug# Category Description Note
ECMSDK-8 Protocols FTPServer does not support custom object types  
ECMSDK-20 Protocols FTP Server does not support switch to admin mode  
ECMSDK-22 Protocols ApplicationSessions are not cleaned up when calling disconnect() on the LibrarySession  
ECMSDK-23 Agents ContentAgent does not use batching when destroying expired content  
ECMSDK-27 Agents IFS-21000: Session is not connected or has timed-out in FolderIndexAgent  
ECMSDK-29 Repository NPE in LibrarySessionEventPollerThreadPerProcess  
ECMSDK-32 Agents ContentAgent need better exit criteria for deleteContentObjects()  
ECMSDK-35 Protocols WebDAV does not work with windows 7  
ECMSDK-38 Repository Remove unused Workflow schema 2
ECMSDK-49 Repository SharedState of a LibraryObject gets overwritten during DataCache put  
ECMSDK-51 Documentation ecmsdk.war stalls during startup if wrong LogFilePath specified  
ECMSDK-53 Repository Custom LockEntries can't be unregistered  
ECMSDK-68 Clients Object Inspector uses wrong JAR file reference  

Bugs Fixed in 1.0

Bug# Category Description
ECMSDK-4 Validator Validator in non-english locale throws exceptions
ECMSDK-6 Installation Patching a .5 fresh installation with .6 or higher fails
ECMSDK-17 Scripting addGlobalOperationActionSpecification() method missing in ScriptOperations

Known Issues

Problem Problem Cause Corrective Action
     

Additional Notes

Note 1:

The new ECMSDK Activity module improves and simplifies the communication and collaboration between users and/or devices. Any action can be recorded and automatically processed for easy context-sensitive information access. In addition, data is enriched with statistics and provide personalized delta states and views on activities.

This outstanding product feature enables the modeling of many user and data driven use cases in the real world. For example, social intranet actions such as "follow", "like" or "suggest" can be captured and summarized for documents or other supporting data objects, and can be tracked in an organized manner by users with access to the object. Many other use cases in the area of IoT or Smart Data can also benefit from this product enhancement.

From a technical point of view, each data object in the ECMSDK repository can be enabled for activities. The object can be a traditional content management object (such as a document or forum post entry), or any object that models a real world entity such as an electronic device or a car. The activity of an object is comprised of the set of actions that were performed with it as its target. Predefined actions are provided out of the box and can be easily extended. Every single action contains a variety of detailed information such as the actor, action type, timestamp, and objects related to the action. The behavior of actions can be configured and customized via Activity Specification objects. Advanced search and filter options allow for a fine-grained analysis and evaluation of tracked activities.

In addition to the Activity API, numerous new ECMSDK business objects will be introduced to simplify context-sensitive conversations such as MessageList, MessageEntry, Conversation, ContactList, and Attachment. For a full list of new ECMSDK objects introduced in this ECMSDK 2.0 release, please refer to the API summary bundled with this release under ECMSDK_HOME/docs/api.

Note 2:

The database schema that was used in previous Oracle CM SDK installations for Oracle Workflow functionality will not be installed anymore starting with ECMSDK 2.0. Oracle Workflow was shipped by Oracle until late 2007. This schema was left in for compatibility reasons. Today, similar functionality can be achieved in different ways, such as inxire Processes or other BPEL engines.

Upgrading an existing Oracle CM SDK or ECMSDK 1.0 installation will not remove this schema for data security reasons. This unused schema could be removed manually after patching to ECMSDK 2.0 with the following SQL command, executed by system

drop user ECMSDK$WF cascade;

Unsupported Features

The following previously deprecated Oracle CM SDK features have now been fully removed since the ECMSDK 1.0 release:

  • Integration with Oracle Application Server 10g

  • Integration with Oracle Enterprise Manager

  • Out of the box integration with Oracle Internet Directory

  • Oracle CM SDK Configuration Assistant

  • Oracle CM SDK Manager

  • Oracle FileSync

  • Out of the box Web Starter Application

  • AFP, IMAP, SMTP, NFS, NTFS and SMB protocol servers

  • Support for Oracle Database 9i and 10gR1

  • Online Upgrade from Oracle CM SDK 9.0.4.2 and later (since ECMSDK 2.0)


Software Requirements

ECMSDK 2.0 is supported with the following software versions:

  • Oracle Database 11.2.0.2 and higher

  • Java 1.6.0_37 and higher

Supported optional middlware components:

  • Oracle WebLogic Server 10.3.4 and higher

  • GlassFish Server 3.1.1 and higher

  • Apache Tomcat 7 and higher

  • JBoss AS 7.1 and higher