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WeWebU OpenWorkdesk 3.0 released
Posted by Nico in CMIS Clients on 21. August 2010
WeWebU Software AG, a manufacturer of standard software for Enterprise Information Management (EIM), announces the latest release of its flagship product WeWebU OpenWorkdesk. Highlights of the release are accessibility according to section 508 of the US Rehabilitation Act, support of the open standard CMIS, and an integrated viewing component that works with all supported content repositories and literally every document format. Many productivity enhancing features round off the release.
The WeWebU development team worked hard for the last three quarters in order to make it happen. “We are very proud to ship first deliveries of the latest version of WeWebU OpenWorkdesk to customers and partners”, says Dr. Rainer Pausch, Head of Products & Marketing at WeWebU. “Besides many incremental improvements we concentrated on four main areas which will open new markets to us and shall set us far ahead of the competition”, he adds. Read the rest of this entry »
Client and Server CMIS connector for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010
Posted by Nico in .NET, CMIS Clients, CMIS Server on 14. August 2010
Microsoft just announced their CMIS connector for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, which enables SharePoint users to interact with content that is stored in any repository that has implemented the CMIS standard. The connector also makes SharePoint Server 2010 content available to any application that has implemented the CMIS standard. The CMIS connector is available as part of the SharePoint 2010 Administration Toolkit.
So this means that the SharePoint Server 2010 now has the functionality to act as as CMIS client and as a CMIS server.
Click here to read the full article at TechNet.
The article deals with the following topics:
Struts2CmisExplorer – a web-based CMIS explorer
Posted by Nico in CMIS Clients, JAVA on 4. July 2010
Struts2CmisExplorer is a further web-based CMIS explorer. The lead developer of this client is Nicolas Raoul. Struts2CmisExplorer has also been developed to be forged to Spring.
Now I will write something about the developer of this explorer. Nicolas Raoul is 28, French and living in Tokyo.
He has been working at Aegif (Alfresco partner) for one year, the only foreigner in his company. Aegif was founded by ex-Documentum people when Alfresco appeared, and is the exclusive partner in Japan for Alfresco and Liferay. They contribute localizations and answer questions on the Alfresco Japanese forum, among other things.
They have been following the details of CMIS since June 2009. Their blog is actually one of the only Japanese websites talking about CMIS:
http://aegif.typepad.jp/blog (You need to be able to read Japanese
)
Struts2CmisExplorer is their second CMIS-based project.
They realized a lot of companies needed a lighter alternative to the complex full-featured web clients that come with ECM products (for instance the “Alfresco Explorer”). Those juggernauts are great for power-users, but employees are usually provided with a lighter, simpler webapp. Clients sometimes also need a simple interface to check “their” documents (bills, reports, etc).
Those interfaces are basically showing the files of a particular directory, embedded into the company’s portal, and are usually developed for a particular ECM product.
So they wanted such a reusable browser, that they could easily integrate into any client’s portal, working with any ECM product. For the repository protocol, the choice was not hard. JCR could have worked, but CMIS is much more promising for document management. Even though most proprietary ECM products don’t support it yet.
For the UI library, they chose Struts2 because it is one of the most widespread enterprise web frameworks. Companies will not be afraid of using Struts2, and chances are they already use it. They brainstormed about the name, from monster names to totally abstract names, but finally settled for Struts2CmisExplorer, a plain and simple concatenation that leaves no ambiguity.
Struts2CmisExplorer was born to be forked. For instance some people will probably need to integrate it with Spring IoC, and Nicolas would love them to create a branch for this. He uses GitHub for source control, which makes branching/merging easy and visual.
About Nicloas: He released his first open source software in 1998, then studied maths and IT. He has worked in 14 countries and speaks 6 languages.
Projects: He worked on the French Air Force’s Document Management system, then on French National Library’s central document management system. He designed a part of the Schengen Information System (Europe polices database), and worked on HTML5 at W3C.
Struts2CmisExplorer is open source and available at http://code.google.com/p/struts2cmisexplorer/.
Microsoft SharePoint will support CMIS in June 2010 – CMIS Connector for SharePoint
Posted by Nico in .NET, CMIS Clients, CMIS Server on 22. April 2010
Ryan Duguid, Senior Product Manager at Microsoft Corporation just posted in the msdn blog that Microsoft will support CMIS by the End of June 2010. They will ship the CMIS Connector for SharePoint as part of the SharePoint Administrator Toolkit.
The CMIS Connector for SharePoint provides a CMIS (Content Management Interoperability Services)interface over the top of SharePoint as well as a CMIS consumer Web Part that can be used to display content from other CMIS enabled repositories.
Click here to read the blog post.
WeWebU OpenWorkdesk is Going Open Source with CMIS support
Posted by Nico in CMIS Clients on 26. March 2010
WeWebU Software AG celebrates its 10th anniversary and announces to give away WeWebU OpenWorkdesk for free starting this summer.
WeWebU creates a CMIS-based Open Source version of its OpenWorkdesk – a comprehensive suite of applications for Enterprise Content Management (ECM) with an intuitive Web 2.0 front-end. The Open Source edition will support all CMIS-enabled ECM platforms, e.g. Alfresco, and will be released in early July. A fully supported commercial version will also be available under subscription.
The CMIS-based version of WeWebU OpenWorkdesk will be presented soon at various trade shows both in Europe and the US.
Click here to read the whole message.
Happy Birthday WeWebU and thanks for making this freely available.
CMIS Browser web application built using Spring Surf and OpenCMIS platform
Posted by Nico in CMIS Clients, JAVA, Video on 18. March 2010
The following video from David Caruana shows a demonstration of CMIS Browser web application built using Spring Surf and OpenCMIS platform. It includes a walkthrough of the CMIS Browser code. Both Alfresco and eXo xCMIS repositories are connected to.
David is an Alfresco ECM Founding Engineer and Chief Architect. Also he is a OASIS CMIS TC Member. During the video David shows what code is needed to connect to the Alfresco and eXo repositories. You’ll see that it is not that much code
New CMIS API release for Drupal with CMIS 1.0 support
Posted by Nico in CMIS Clients, PHP, WCM on 17. March 2010
A new version of the CMIS API for the Web Content Management System Drupal is now available.
This release includes:
- CMIS 1.0 support
- Multiple repositories support
- CMIS repository switcher block
- CMIS common library client implementation (vendor specifc modules are no longer required. cmis_alfresco is deprecated)
- Synchronization with binary files support
- Flexible synchronization rules
- Folder picker for CMIS browser navigation
Major changes:
- cmis_alfresco module is deprecated
- All admin screens have been removed. Will be addressed in feature releases
- API suffered major changes, in order to match CMIS 1.0 specs
- CMIS document view block has been dropped. Will be addressed in feature releases
Changes from RC2
- Added cmis_sync more complex config sample to README.txt
- Added support for json response to cmis_query view
- Fixed cmis_browser actions for path containing white spaces
- Fixed cmis_folderId sync setting
Changes from RC1
- Fixed cmis_sync filefield support
Click here to download the Drupal CMIS API.
eZ Publish sucessfully connects to Nuxeo, Alfresco and KnowledgeTree using CMIS
Posted by Nico in CMIS Clients, PHP, WCM on 16. March 2010
The new version of the CMIS client for the Web Content Management System eZ Publish is now available. The solution has been tested and it works well with Nuxeo, Alfresco and KnowledgeTree. The client is compatible with eZ Publish version 4.1 and 4.2.
Extension supports browsing, downloading, uploading content by CMIS standard, also it contains additional class for eZ Publish that makes it easier to integrate systems together. With this extension it is possible to create a links to documents that are stored on CMIS server side, and downloading it through eZ Publish has proxy.
Check the project homepage for further details.
CARA – A CMIS based web browser interface to Documentum, SharePoint and Alfresco
Posted by Nico in CMIS Clients on 9. March 2010
Generis offers a full functionality document management web application that provides a single interface to all CMIS-compliant repositories. Based on producers website it is currently released for Documentum , SharePoint and Alfresco. Releases for the file system, FileNet and LiveLink are planed in the coming months. CARA3 connects to the repositories using the very latest CMIS functionality which allows your to build a common set of functionality to be used on the multiple repositories. The stated aim of the OASIS CMIS Technical Committee is “Using Web services and Web 2.0 interfaces to enable information sharing across content management repositories from different vendors”.
The software is built on the Google Web Toolkit. This allows them to build an interface quickly, and most importantly to separate the backend, repository-specific functionality from the user interface, which allowed the user interface to be reusable for multiple repository types. CARA3 provides full authoring, review, approval and publishing functionality to end users together with. Read the rest of this entry »
PHP CMIS client library v0.3 released
Posted by Nico in CMIS Clients, PHP on 1. March 2010
Version 0.3 of a CMIS PHP client library has just been released.
The project is hosted by the Google Code portal. The source code can be downloaded here. Read the rest of this entry »

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