XAOP Sharepoint Features

Posted by Gitte Vermeiren on Jun 18, 2009

Next to development on EMC Documentum, we are now also taking on projects that provide document management solutions on SharePoint Server. SharePoint gives you basically the similar set of functionalities like storing documents together with metadata, and also provides a versioning and workflow management framework.

Off course we would like to reuse our existing efforts done in Ruby on EMC Documentum on other systems as well, so also on SharePoint Server. For this we can not use standard Ruby as we would like. Instead we started looking at IronRuby, the Ruby implementation on the .Net Framework, since all SharePoint development is based on .Net. (Yes, we know, there are also quite a lot of Web services we can utilize, but let's leave those out of the question for now). 

To get a view of the possibilities we did an extensive test of IronRuby's possibilities on some SharePoint sites and we can now say these tests were quite successfull. The full story of how we accomplished this and how you yourself can try out some dynamic coding on SharePoint Server, can be found in our labs section.