Hi all

[Goldenwind]

Hi all,
I am wondering if the market for Livelink is really good.
I am one who's trained well on the implementation part of it and also used the tool for about 8 months but not much on oscript and Module building.
so I am wondering weather to continue with this or to change my path as i am good with Java and also MS technologies.
Please some one advise me on this.
Thanks

 

[ggriffit]

There is some market for general Livelink experience, mainly as a trainer/support/admin role although you'd need to get to grips with more fo the tool probably for that.

On the dev side, OScript is useful if you want to focus on developing standard modules - although the new Java Modules thing could change it.

As you use Java and VB at the moment you could always try LAPI.

Check out

http://www.greggriffiths.org/livelink

which has some more Livelink info and a jobs section which may give you some better ideas.

 

[Goldenwind]

Hi Greg,
Thanx for the reply.
It a very Informative Site.
for Oscript & builder any training is available?

 

[ggriffit]

The current best option for training is OpenText themselves, the course on the Builder and LAPI is excellent - I recently did the Certified Developer fast track.

I'm not aware of any non-OT sources of training for the developer side, or any other websites/books that would be helpful, although there are some LAPI samples on my site. Does anyone else have any ?

 

[appnair]

As far as lerning Oscript the only limiting thing is the development environment.Simply put the builder module is actaully another module which attaches to the livelink software.so to learn this you need to have a livelink devlopment environment and that can prove costly unless you had access to the livelink software.But by learning the sample addressbook module and other stuff I have pretty much been able to do most of the Oscripting,weblingo part myself since I was not fortunate to get OT training myself although I did LAPI.Most of the things that I had written in LAPI could probably be done much faster and with less lines of code in retrospect.But things could change since OT has been talking of a massive source code porting towards java.?
As regards oppurtunities the US has probably less OT users than the rest of the world but you can always find the
US company's list if you did a craetive digging around

http://www.opentext.com

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. - Will Rogers

appnair

 

[ggriffit]

I agree about the need to have a local LL copy for development being a pain - the overhead of running a DB & LL on a laptop / desktop can be problematic.

The JavaModules beta has been released and is available for some users. (

https://knowledge.opentext.com/knowledge/llisapi.dll?func=ll&objId=3300631&objAction=view&show=2)

 

[Goldenwind]

I thank both Greg and Appnair for their valuable suggestions.
For practical reasons i might shift to MS technologies.
thanks again..