Alfresco Provides First Draft CMIS Implementation via Alfresco Labs
Allows Companies to Gain Hands-On Experience with Proposed Content
Management Standard
LONDON (Business Wire EON/PRWEB ) September 10, 2008 --
Alfresco Software today announced
the availability of the first Content Management Interoperability
Services (CMIS) specification draft implementation. As a contributing
member of the draft technical specification, Alfresco is able to offer a
draft implementation of CMIS for developers who wish to explore the
draft specification.
Just as the major database vendors standardized on SQL in the 1980’s,
today’s leading ECM vendors have developed a
draft specification with the goal of delivering and enabling
interoperability across content repositories. The draft specification is
backed by Alfresco, EMC, IBM, Microsoft, OpenText, Oracle and SAP.
Today most companies have multiple content management systems supporting
individual applications resulting in islands of incompatible systems.
Organizations are searching for a write-once, run-anywhere content
application that will both run against, and integrate content from
multiple content management systems into a Portal, CRM system or Office
application.
The objective of the draft CMIS specification is to deliver a common,
REST or Web Services, API that can be used to develop write-once,
run-anywhere, next generation content and social applications. Following
the announcement earlier today of the planned submission of the CMIS
specification to OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured
Information Standards), Alfresco has made available the following for
preview:
-
Support for the CMIS REST and Web Services bindings allowing client
applications to connect to, navigate, read, and create content against
the Alfresco content repository
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Support for the CMIS Query Language providing SQL-like querying of the
repository including location, properties, and full-text
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A CMIS Test Suite to allow compliance compatibility testing against
any CMIS compliant REST Binding
In order to drive the ongoing development and discussion of the draft
technical specification, Alfresco will shortly make available CMIS
webinars and tutorials.
“CMIS will ultimately become the foundation
for developing next generation content collaboration and social
computing applications,” said John
Newton, Chairman and CTO, Alfresco Software. “Developers
can start exploring CMIS today with the draft implementation available
from Alfresco Labs. CMIS will enable anyone to develop content
applications on open source Alfresco and deploy them on SharePoint, EMC,
IBM, or OpenText.”
Alfresco Labs’ Draft CMIS Implementation can
be downloaded at: http://tinyurl.com/downloadcmis
To participate in the discussion about CMIS visit the Alfresco CMIS
Forum: http://tinyurl.com/cmisforums
Read John Newton’s blog on CMIS: http://tinyurl.com/cmisblog
About Alfresco Software, Inc.
Alfresco Software, Inc. is the first and leading open source alternative
for enterprise content management. It is the first company to bring the
power of open source to the enterprise content management market,
enabling unprecedented scale and a much lower total cost of ownership
than proprietary systems. Founded by a team of content management
veterans that includes the co-founder of Documentum, John Newton, and
former COO of Business Objects, John Powell, Alfresco is based in
London. For more information, visit http://www.alfresco.com.
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