Comments on: AIIM’s iECM Committee, Validating CMIS

By: Project Seamist (CMIS)

Project Seamist (CMIS) — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:31:03 +0000

Alfresco has posted an Update on Alfresco’s Draft CMIS Implementation on their CMIS blog and they refer to the effort by AIIM. Thanks for the wave and we are looking forward to working with you and the other vendors. -Pie

By: Pie

Pie — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 01:44:28 +0000

Jeff, thanks for your input. The corpus of content has changed a bit. We are looking at putting similar content in each repository and then issuing searches, in parallel, to each repository and then merging the results. We are going to keep the security simple, and use a unified object model.

Still a long way to go in a short time. I’ll share progress as we make it to solicit feedback from the community.

-Pie

By: Jeff Potts

Jeff Potts — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 21:52:56 +0000

So the CMIS Federator in this case looks like it isn’t really a search broker, per se, but is more of a request broker or something that the front-end is talking to.

You’re probably going to be building a web site that is going to make CMIS queries to pull in content from each of the repositories. One way to do that would be to have the front-end tier make CMIS calls directly to the appropriate source.

Alternatively, you could have a “request broker”–nothing serious–just a class or something, that the front-end would talk to. It would make requests like, “Give me the presentations” and the broker would know that presentations reside in the XYZ repo. It would then make the CMIS call and return back the ATOM response to the caller.

This approach is probably preferred if you think you might want to change out where you get a certain type of content. If that happened, the front-end wouldn’t have to change–only the type-to-repo mapping in the broker.

By: Pie

Pie — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:53:54 +0000

Well, I heard from EMC. Hey Billy, you guys interested?

By: Patricia

Patricia — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:48:37 +0000

Sounds like a great opportunity. We would love to participate. I will follow up with your contacts.

By: craigrandall

craigrandall — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:43:46 +0000

Thanks for this post, Pie. We just posted the second early access release of CMIS support for Documentum: http://craigrandall.net/archives/2009/01/emc-documentum-cmis-ea2/. Sounds like the OASIS CMIS TC will hear more about AIIM’s efforts around CMIS from Betsy, too. Cheers…

By: Pie

Pie — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:20:36 +0000

A little aggressive, yes, but in theory it is easy. This is just a search and retrieval and if existing apps are used, it should work.

Also, we will need other help as well for the front-end, so volunteers are welcome.

By: lopataru

lopataru — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:17:02 +0000

By March this year ? It reminds me of the good old days when projects were usually done in weeks, not months…
Good luck!
I would like to give a hand, but I’m no vendor.