Another interresting presentation at Momentum 2010 was the xCP roadmap session.
Documentum 6.7 will be released Q2 next year. It will bring some minor upgrades, such as broad 64-bit support on both the client and server side, and more SSO support (non-Windows Kerberos and WebSeal).
xCP 2.0 will come end of next year. This will include some major changes.
An all new xCP Application builder will be the new tool for application configuration. It will replace both Process Builder and Forms Builder and will add most of the configuration functionality that is now in Composer (creating types, lifecycles, etc.). It will also be used for deployment.
Composer is still there, but it will only be used by the developers. All they do with Composer is program Java code and produce Jar files.
The way deployment works will also be changed. The xCP App Builder (xAB?) can be used to pull all configuration and customization together and package that into a vApp ready for deployment with vSphere. Sounds promising ...
This separation of tools sounds like an improvement to me. The UI mockup I saw looked promising. Let's just hope that all functionality of the olders tools will show up in the new ones (I'm still using Application Builder for some things).
On the DFS front the news is that Documentum is moving toward RESTful services. D6.7 should see a bunch of REST services appearing in DFS and they should all be there in D7. I also heard about DFSX in another session. DFS Xtended adds some useful features to make it even easier to use. The example I heard was the addition of Kerberos SSO support.
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