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 doesn’t have SharePoint available within the demo yet but they support this demo.

You can upload and search for content within the repositories of the following companies:

• Alfresco
• EMC
• eXo
• IBM
• Nuxeo

I tested the upload of a test1.txt document to all repositories. It worked for all except EMC. There I got an error message. Than I tried to search for the content within the demo. But It didn’t find test1 or CMIS that entered into the document.

Also the search for www.cmis.biz leads to an error. There is still something to do within this demo but it really looks promising.

You can test it at http://aiim-iecm.org

This includes:

• CMIS Query
• Web Services Binding
• REST Binding
• Access Control Lists
• Change Logs
• Renditions
• CMIS Test Compatibility Kit
• Plus Alfresco extension for Aspect query and property get/set operations

Check the release notes for further details.

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.

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

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.

Coming soon – iCARA – single app for iPhones, Android phone and Blackberries to access any CMIS repository such as Documentum, SharePoint, Alfresco, LiveLink, FileNet and others.

Generis has been a provider of electronic document management software around the world since 1997. Clients range across industries and include Johnson & Johnson, Pratt & Whitney, Citigroup, Dow Corning, the Department of Homeland Security, Total Oil and 3M.

A similar web browser software based on CMIS is the OpenWorkdesk from WeWebU.

We’ve presented our new CMIS module for the Web Content Management System FirstSpirit.
This module is called “DMS connect” and is responsible for the connection to the repositories of Sharepoint and Alfresco using CMIS. The module helps to easily publish documents to websites.

I showed this module to several people. Almost all of them thought that this will bring a big benefit to their publication process.

Since the CeBIT I am really sure that CMIS will become a big success!

ARITHNEA just released a new module for the High-End Content Management System FirstSpirit ™ called DMS connect.

DMS connect uses CMIS to connect to different Document Management Systems. The module successfully works with Sharepoint 2010 and Alfresco 3.2. Not all CMIS features have been implemented yet. Within the next weeks it will also be tested against the Nuxeo repository that already offers CMIS. The module is meant to work with all CMIS compliant DMS. This will be tested as soon those repositories are available.

This images shows an editor mask within the web content management.

It is possible to connect to more than one repository with this module. The editors can choose which repository they want to access (red section). This can be easily switched through a drop-down list.

With this module the online editors have direct access to the DMS. They can directly choose the files they want to publish to the website. There is no need anymore to copy documents to the internal media store. This way the document management process stays within the DMS and the editorial process stays in the CMS. This makes web publishing with documents much more efficient.

The module will be presented for the first time at CeBIT in Hannover.

You can see the module in action at h all 6, stand J36.

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If you like to know more about the 22010 AIIM CMIS demo or if you like to participate check the following blog post for more details.