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Description

ECM Developer is an open source Eclipse plug in aimed at supporting the development of applications using the IBM FileNet P8 Content Engine. It approaches the system from a developers point of view and tries to find solutions for day to day tasks. The project is hosted on sourceforge.net and the plug in can be downloaded here or by using the Eclipse update site http://www.ecmdeveloper.com/update

Features

Browsing Object Stores using the Object Stores View or the Object Store Favorites View.
Performing some basic actions on Object Store objects such as renaming, moving and deleting.
Creating new Object Store objects.
Performing actions on the content of the document such as viewing, editing (checkout, checkin), downloading and comparing.
Tracking the content of the document in the Workspace.
Editing of folder, document and custom object properties.
Class Diagram Editor, creating UML diagrams of the classes defined in the Object Store.
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Java code wizards for event action handlers, document life cycle handlers and document classifiers.
An editor for updating code modules and event actions.
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The plug in uses the Java API based on the WSI protocol to access the FileNet P8 system. This is the most generic way of accessing the system and does not depend on the underlying system architecture. Because the Java API is not distributed with this plug in, using this plug in requires access to the Java API. Information about installing the plug in can be found here. After the plug in is installed the configuration of the Object Stores managed with this plug in must be imported into the plug in environment. Information about importing an Object Store can be found here.

This plug in is tested with the 4.5 version and the 4.5.1 version of the FileNet Content Engine. In one installation only one of the versions is supported.

News

[7/5/2011]

Version 1.5.0 of the ECM Developer plug-in is available for download. New in this version is the ability to search objects. The full list of changes can be found here here.

[2/6/2011]

Version 1.4.0 of the ECM Developer plug-in is available for download. New in this version is the ability to create objects, a simplified code module editor and a favorites view. The full list of changes can be found here here.

[7/26/2010]

Version 1.3.0 of the ECM Developer plug-in is available for download. This version adds a lot of actions on the document content, such as viewing, editing, downloading and comparing. These actions along with some bug fixes are described here.

[4/25/2010]

Version 1.2.0 of the ECM Developer plug-in is available for download. This version has Content Engine 4.5.1. support. A new feature is the class diagram editor. The rest of the changes are described here.