A comprehensive introduction to CMIS and to the existing vendors and frameworks, with focus on the Apache Chemistry works and the OpenCMIS client capabilities. Finally a demo introducing OpenCMIS integration with Spring Surf working against an Alfresco reopsitory.

1. CMIS is here, did you know?
Gabriele Columbro
Senior Solu9on Engineer, EMEA
Alfresco Spring Meetups, 2010
Friday, May 7, 2010

2. Agenda
● ECM is easy with CMIS
● A CMIS overview
● CMIS State of the Na*on
● CMIS ready products
● CMIS frameworks
● Alfresco CMIS roadmap
● Demos and Q/A
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3. Agenda
● ECM is easy with CMIS
● A CMIS overview
● CMIS State of the Na*on
● CMIS ready products
● CMIS frameworks
● Alfresco CMIS roadmap
● Demos and Q/A
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4. The ECM babel...
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5. ..and its consequences!
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6. CMIS bridged ECM to a new era!
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7. CMIS is the standard of the year
● Founding members
● IBM, Microsoft, EMC
● Contribu9ng members
● Alfresco, Open Text, SAP, Oracle (BEA)
● Timeline
● Contribu9ng Members invited Aug 07
● DraR Spec SubmiSed to OASIS 10th Sept 2008
● Public draR (1.0cd04) on October 23rd 2009
• Lasted 3 months
● ARer review, final Public draR (1.0cd06) started in Jan 2010
• Lasted 1 month
● No major objec9ons, OASIS started standardiza9on process in February 2010 (1.0cd07)
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8. Where CMIS can help you?
● Collabora9ve Content Crea9on ● Repository federa9on
● Authen9ca9on, Checkin/out, Version Control ● Cross repo search
● Content replica9on
● ECM Content delivery ● Migra9on
● Portal integra9on
● Search ● Content Enabled Ver9cal Applica9ons
● ERP integra9on
● Web 2.0 Mashups ● CRM integra9on
● URL addressability
● Proper9es ● Authoring 9er integra9on
● APP support ● Office suites
● Offline sync
● Content as a Service (CaaS)
● Repository agnos9c interface for building ● Compound documents
content centric business applica9ons ● Rela9onships
● Placorm as as a Service (PaaS)
● Ubiquitous commodi9zed access to content in
the the Cloud
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9. Need concrete examples?
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10. Need concrete examples?
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11. Need concrete examples?
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12. Need concrete examples?
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13. Need concrete examples?
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14. Need concrete examples?
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15. Need concrete examples?
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16. Out of CMIS v1 scope
● Maybe addressed in future CMIS versions
● Records Management & Compliance
● Reten9on schedules, classifica9on, legal holds
● Digital Asset Management
● Streaming
● Web Content Management
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● Business Process Management
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● Workflow, task inbox, BPEL
● Subscrip9on/No9fica9on Services
● Event triggers
● Browser binding
● JSON binding
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17. Agenda
● ECM is easy with CMIS
● A CMIS overview
● CMIS State of the Na*on
● CMIS ready products
● CMIS frameworks
● Alfresco CMIS roadmap
● Demos and Q/A
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18. What’s so cool about CMIS?
● CMIS was born to overcome silo approaches
● Content silos
● Vendor silos
● System integra9on silos
● What’s new and disrup9ve about CMIS
● Cross‐language
● Cross‐paradigm
● Cross‐vendor
● A standard is not a standard if nobody uses it!
● Find the GCD of exis9ng ECM systems
● Buy‐in from virtually all ECM market
● Limit scope for broad acceptance
● Con9nuous integra9on and interop mee9ngs
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19. First CMIS baby wails in 2009...
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20. ...and this is happening now!
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21. CMIS spec overview
● Part I ‐ Encapsulates ECM experience
● Defines Domain Model
● Defines Services i.e. interac9on with Model
● Common to ECM repositories
● Part II ‐ Map Part I to Protocol Bindings
● SOAP / WSDL
• Leverage years of investment in infrastructure/tools
• Service‐oriented
• Content Repository orchestra9on
● REST
• “Web 2.0” stack
• Resource‐oriented
• Content syndica9on / publishing
● In the future (v1.1 or v2) lightweight “browser binding” (e.g. JSON)
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22. CMIS at a glance
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23. CMIS domain model
ACL Object Property
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-!Permissions -!Abstract -!Required
-!Direct -!Queryable -!Default Value
-!Controllable -!…
-!Fileable
Rendition Document Folder Relationship Policy
-!Kind * -!Versionable -!Source Types
-!Mime Type -!Allow Content -!Target Types
Content Stream Custom Type !"#$%&'$()*
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24. CMIS meta model
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25. CMIS Services
● CMIS services provide methods that allow
a client to:
● Browse the repository
● Inspect Object within the
repository
● Act upon the objects in the
repository
● Methods provided are split up
into 9 dis*nct services
● Repository ‐ Browse
● Naviga9on ‐ Browse
● Discovery ‐ Browse
● Object ‐ Inspect/Act
● Versioning ‐ Inspect/Act
● Rela9onship ‐ Inspect
● Mul9‐filing ‐ Act
● Policy ‐ Inspect/Act
● ACL ‐ Inspect/Act
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26. CMIS SQL Queries
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27. CMIS Model to Rela9onal
Mapping
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28. CMIS Model to Rela9onal
Mapping
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29. CMIS Bindings from a
client perspec9ve
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30. CMIS Bindings from a
client perspec9ve
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31. CMIS Bindings from a
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32. CMIS Bindings from a
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33. CMIS ReST Binding
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34. CMIS WebServices Binding
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35. Agenda
● ECM is easy with CMIS
● A CMIS overview
● CMIS State of the Na*on
● CMIS ready products
● CMIS frameworks
● Alfresco CMIS roadmap
● Demos and Q/A
Friday, May 7, 2010

36. Agenda
● ECM is easy with CMIS
● A CMIS overview
● CMIS State of the Na*on
● CMIS ready products
● CMIS frameworks
● Alfresco CMIS roadmap
● Demos and Q/A
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37. Alfresco CMIS Server
● Alfresco is the first and most complete implementa9on
● Since 2008 both ReST and WS
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● Compa9ble with
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38. More CMIS providers
● Other open source players WIP on CMIS
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● Nuxeo (Chemistry)
● Jahia (Chemistry) ,-./%47/8%9)3:)3;%
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● Using Apache Chemistry for CMIS
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● Chemistry OpenCMIS offers SPIs
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CMIS compliant services
● SAP/OpenText
● WIP: Chemistry ‐‐> OpenCMIS
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39. More CMIS providers
● Other open source players WIP on CMIS
● Exo (xCMIS) ,-./%47/8%,2)+3*% ,-./%</%,2)+3*%
● Day (Chemistry)
● Nuxeo (Chemistry)
● Jahia (Chemistry) ,-./%47/8%9)3:)3;%
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● Using Apache Chemistry for CMIS Chemistry OpenCMIS SPIs
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CMIS compliant services
● SAP/OpenText
● WIP: Chemistry ‐‐> OpenCMIS
Friday, May 7, 2010

40. Agenda
● ECM is easy with CMIS
● A CMIS overview
● CMIS State of the Na*on
● CMIS ready products
● CMIS frameworks
● Alfresco CMIS roadmap
● Demos and Q/A
Friday, May 7, 2010

41. Apache Chemistry
(and OpenCMIS)
● Apache Umbrella for all CMIS impls
● History of an open source miracle :)
● Late 2008 ‐ Started as JCR extension
● Early 2009 ‐ Incubator podling with Nuxeo Chemistry contrib
● Early 2010 ‐ OpenCMIS contrib by Alfresco/SAP/OpenText
● April 2010 ‐ Chemistry merged on OpenCMIS
● CommiSers (amongst others) from
● Alfresco
● Day
● Nuxeo
● SAP/OpenText
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42. Apache Chemistry
(and OpenCMIS)
● Apache Umbrella for all CMIS impls
● History of an open source miracle :)
● Late 2008 ‐ Started as JCR extension
● Early 2009 ‐ Incubator podling with Nuxeo Chemistry contrib
● Early 2010 ‐ OpenCMIS contrib by Alfresco/SAP/OpenText
● April 2010 ‐ Chemistry merged on OpenCMIS
● CommiSers (amongst others) from
● Alfresco
● Day
● Nuxeo
● SAP/OpenText
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43. Objec9ves of Chemistry
● Host mul9ple language client / server CMIS support
● Java, Python, Javascript
● Offer a CMIS Test Compa9bility Kit
● Contributed by Alfresco in early 2009
● Foster an open standard by an open implementa9on!
● Provide a strong Java client API and server SPI
● Apache is mostly Java focused
● OpenCMIS chosen as reference Java CMIS client
• Object oriented CMIS development
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44. What’s this OpenCMIS aRer all?
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45. What’s this OpenCMIS aRer all?
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46. What’s this OpenCMIS aRer all?
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47. Why Chemistry OpenCMIS?
● Open source (standard)
● Offers embedded and in
memory test suite
● Client API candies
● Caching
● Session concept
● Binding is JUST a
configuraLon parameter
● Client layer is all about the
domain model
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48. CMIS is ready to use
● Chemistry Python cmislib
● Donated by Jeff PoSs, Optaros
● Used by Plone module
● cmis‐spaces Flex client
● By Steve Reiner, Integrated Seman9cs
● spring‐webscripts browser on OpenCMIS
● By Dave Caruana, Alfresco
● Other implementa9ons:
● PHP CMIS module
• By Rich McNight, Alfresco
● Chemistry Fileshare browser
• Contributed by Florian Mueller, Open Text
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49. CMIS is ready to use
● Chemistry Python cmislib
● Donated by Jeff PoSs, Optaros
● Used by Plone module
● cmis‐spaces Flex client
● By Steve Reiner, Integrated Seman9cs
● spring‐webscripts browser on OpenCMIS
● By Dave Caruana, Alfresco
● Other implementa9ons:
● PHP CMIS module
• By Rich McNight, Alfresco
● Chemistry Fileshare browser
• Contributed by Florian Mueller, Open Text
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50. CMIS is ready to use
● Chemistry Python cmislib
● Donated by Jeff PoSs, Optaros
● Used by Plone module
● cmis‐spaces Flex client
● By Steve Reiner, Integrated Seman9cs
● spring‐webscripts browser on OpenCMIS
● By Dave Caruana, Alfresco
● Other implementa9ons:
● PHP CMIS module
• By Rich McNight, Alfresco
● Chemistry Fileshare browser
• Contributed by Florian Mueller, Open Text
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51. CMIS is ready to use
● Chemistry Python cmislib
● Donated by Jeff PoSs, Optaros
● Used by Plone module
● cmis‐spaces Flex client
● By Steve Reiner, Integrated Seman9cs
● spring‐webscripts browser on OpenCMIS
● By Dave Caruana, Alfresco
● Other implementa9ons:
● PHP CMIS module
• By Rich McNight, Alfresco
● Chemistry Fileshare browser
• Contributed by Florian Mueller, Open Text
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52. CMIS state of the na9on
● Standard
● Providers ready
● Client API
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53. CMIS state of the na9on
● Standard
● Providers ready
● Client API
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54. Agenda
● ECM is easy with CMIS
● A CMIS overview
● CMIS State of the Na*on
● CMIS ready products
● CMIS frameworks
● CMIS is Alfresco strategy
● Demos and Q/A
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55. CMIS is key to Alfresco
● Alfresco 3.0Stable launched with DraR CMIS in late 2008
● Alfresco 3.2r2 Community with complete 1.0cd04 CMIS server
● Public CMIS 1.0 compliant ReST and SOAP server available at:
● hSp://cmis.alfresco.com
● Alfresco 3.3 compa9ble with final 1.0cd07
● ACL in as well
● Aspects mapped into Policies and Joins with Types (for querying)
● Proprietary extension for managing Aspects
● And what about Enterprise customers?
● CMIS 1.0 Final supported as soon as it’s standard
● 3.3 EE (May 2010) will support CMIS 1.0 server
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56. Alfresco CMIS Open Strategy
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57. Why CMIS in Alfresco?
● CMIS as run9me for commodi9zed access for CaaS plaQorms
● On premises
● In the cloud
● Embedded run9me (LGPL and OEMs)
● Framework of choice for integra9ons and migra9ons
● Simplifica9on for partners and customers
● “Switch to” campaign
● Building block of the Alfresco Web Roadmap
● Content Run9me integrated in Spring Surf
● Deployment and architecture capabili9es
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58. Alfresco CMIS web 9er
● Alfresco Surf....now Spring Surf
● Will include more and more CMIS components
● CMIS top level objects in the JS run9me
• Using Open CMIS Client layer
● Document oriented endpoints should use CMIS
● And what about Share?
● CMIS document library
● More and more based on Surf CMIS capabili9es
● Frontend/Portal integra9ons
● Document oriented func9onali9es using CMIS
● Mix’n’match with Alfresco ReST API (webscripts) for addi9onal features
• BPM
• WCM
• RM
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59. Alfresco Web Vision
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60. Spring Surf OpenCMIS
integra9on
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61. Agenda
● ECM is easy with CMIS
● A CMIS overview
● CMIS State of the Na*on
● CMIS ready products
● CMIS frameworks
● CMIS is Alfresco strategy
● Demos and Q/A
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62. Demo architecture
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63. Demo architecture
hSps://anonsvn.springframework.org/svn/se‐surf/branches/DEV_CMIS/spring‐cmis/
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64. Ques9ons?
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65. References
Spec: hSp://docs.oasis‐open.org/cmis/CMIS/v1.0/cd07/cmis‐spec‐v1.0.html
● Drupal CMIS module ● Confluence Alfresco CMIS plugin
● hSp://drupal.org/project/cmis ● hSp://code.google.com/p/confluence‐
alfresco/
● Liferay Alfresco CMIS integra9on
● hSp://www.liferay.com/community/wiki/‐/
● CMIS Firefox Plugin
wiki/Main/Alfresco+integra9on ● hSp://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/
library/quickr‐cmis/index.html
● Plone CMIS integra9on
● hSp://www.netsight.co.uk/blog/2010/3/23/
● Alfresco and CMIS
plone‐cmis‐integra9on ● hSp://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/CMIS
● hSp://cmis.alfresco.com/
● Joomla Alfresco CMIS module
● hSp://www.alfresco.com/products/placorm/ ● Apache Chemistry OpenCMIS
try/ ● hSp://incubator.apache.org/projects/
chemistry.html
● Iphone Citytech CMIS client ● hSps://cwiki.apache.org/CMIS/opencmis.html
● hSp://blogs.citytechinc.com/gkorsnick/?
cat=37 ● Spring Surf
● hSp://www.springsurf.org/
● cmis‐spaces Flex client ● hSp://blogs.alfresco.com/wp/cmis/
● hSp://code.google.com/p/cmisspaces/ 2010/03/17/spring‐surf‐and‐opencmis‐
integra9on/
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66. Thank you for aSending!
Gabriele Columbro
twitter: @mindthegabz
blog: http://www.mindhtegab.com
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67. Networking Reception
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