First Impressions on Documentum 6 (D6) Contd..

These are some of the differences I saw in D6 when compared to earlier version (5.3)…

* dfc.properties file is used instead of DMCL.ini
* DMCL emulator for backward compatibility for DMCL API calls (probably desktop client uses this)
* Global registry is made mandatory
* Aspects (on the lines of TBOs and SBOs)
* D6 install comes with its own DFC.jar, which means that D5 and D6 can exist on same box
* Presets (in Webtop)
* DocApp Archive becomes a DAR and is installed from Composer (Need to analyse what a DAR format is..is it just a zip of DocApp Archive? )
* McLaren Docloader doesn’t work with D6?
* Conditional value assistance
* Classification of Search results in Webtop
* Indexing can be restricted to object type

My First Impressions on Documentum 6 (D6)

I have attended a 2 day workshop on D6 and Installed Webtop which seemed to be a simple 3 step process:
1. Installed JDK 1.5
2. Installed Apache Tomcat 5.5
3. Copied the D6 Webtop webapp to Tomcat

PROBLEM:
First error I got when I opened webtop is this:
com.documentum.web.form.control.TagPoolingEnabledException: JSP tag pooling is not supported. Please refer to the product deployment guide for instructions on turning off tag pooling for the application server.

Searched for above error in Google but couldn’t find a solution. I researched for sometime and here is the solution that worked for me.

SOLUTION:
1. Go to Tomcat/conf folder and open web.xml file
2. search for "enablePooling" in file
3. enablePooling is by default [true] which needs to be set a false for webtop to work.
4. set the enablepooling to false as below.
    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>jsp</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet</servlet-class>
...
        <init-param>
            <param-name>enablePooling</param-name>
            <param-value>false</param-value>
        </init-param>
...
    </servlet>
5. delete the Catalina in Tomcat/Work folder (Mandatory)
6. restart Tomcat