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WeWebU joined OASIS and its CMIS Technical Committee

Nico — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:24:44 +0000

WeWebU Software AG is now a member of the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) and its Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) Technical Committee (TC).

WeWebU already has a software named OpenWorkdesk that acts as a powerful client to different ECM systems. The following ECM systems can already be accessed:

IBM ECM systems:

IBM FileNet Image Services
IBM FileNet Content Manager
IBM FileNet Business Process Manager
IBM Content Manager (CM8)
IBM Content Manager on Demand

Other ECM systems can also be supported through JSR 170.

With the coming CMIS adapter, its user-friendly applications will be interoperable with almost every ECM system and usable even for almost every cross-repository scenario. The WeWebU OpenWorkdesk for CMIS will be available in the first half of 2010 with only short delay after the finalization of the CMIS specification by OASIS.

About WeWebU Software AG

WeWebU Software AG is the specialist for Enterprise Information Management. With our standard products, enterprises can access their complete information infrastructure via a unified, process-oriented working environment. Thus, they reduce costs, increase their employees’ productivity, come to decisions faster and better, and make their whole enterprise more agile.

WeWebU Software AG operates internationally. It cooperates with leading EIM manufacturers and consulting firms and is an IBM Advanced Business Partner as well as Alfresco Systems Integrator & Solutions Partner.

The continually growing customer-base of WeWebU Software AG consists of e.g. Bayerischer Rundfunk, SAPERION AG, Siemens AG and DATEV e.G., financial institutions like Hamburger Sparkasse, Sparkasse Bremen, UniCredit Leasing, Visana Group, SUVA and NÜRNBERGER Versicherungsgruppe as well as several US federal and state agencies like the California Department of Public Health.

Updated CMIS client library for Python – cmislib 0.2

Nico — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:39:44 +0000

Since Monday the new python library for CMIS is available in version 0.2.
cmislib provides a CMIS client library for Python that can be used to work with CMIS-compliant repositories such as Alfresco, IBM FileNet, Nuxeo and others.

The high-level To-Do list is in the about page within the docs. Code-level To-Do’s are scattered throughout the source. Basically, right now you can:

Create folders and documents (with or without content)
Retrieve and update properties on folders and documents
Checkout, checkin, cancel checkout
Delete folders and documents
Run CMIS queries, including those that return paged results
Get the list of object type definitions or specific type defs by type ID

The library has been tested against:

Alfresco 3.2r2 Community (CMIS 1.0cd04)
Alfresco hosted CMIS (CMIS 1.0cd06)
IBM FileNet P8 (CMIS 1.0cd06)

You can download it here.

Overview of ECM Vendors that support CMIS (IBM, EMC, Microsoft, Alfresco, SAP, OpenText, etc.)

Nico — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 12:02:28 +0000

Based on the vendors websites and other ressources I’ve created the following overview.

It shows the Enterprise Content Management Systems that will support CMIS. It also shows when they are going to support it.

Vendor	Product	CMIS Support Timeline
Alfresco	Alfresco 3.2	Available for testing
EMC	Documentum	First half of 2010
IBM	Content Manager	Second First half of 2010
IBM	FileNet P8	Second First half of 2010
KnowledgeTree	KnowledgeTree 3.7	Available for testing
Microsoft	SharePoint Server 2010	First half of 2010
Nuxeo	Nuxeo DMS 5.3	Available for testing
Open Text	Enterprise Library Services (ELS-Beta)	CMIS connector available now
Open Text	Open Text ECM 10	Mid 2010
Oracle	Oracle Universal Content Management	Not known
SAP	SAP DMS	Not known
Sense/Net	Sense/Net 6.0	Available for testing

Suggestions are highly welcome!

Updated CMIS client library for Python – cmislib 0.1

Nico — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:09:30 +0000

Jeff Potts just released the new version (0.1) of the python library for CMIS.
The library has been successfully tested with IBM FileNet and Alfresco.

You can download the source code here. Also documentation and easy install instructions for python are available.

As Jeff posted on this blog this is the first API known to work with different CMIS providers. This shows that the interoperability really works!

IBM FileNet and IBM Content Manager Technology Preview for CMIS

Nico — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:18:22 +0000

IBM offers a technical preview for there CMIS implementation that provides support for the CMIS REST/Atom binding for the IBM® FileNet® and IBM Content Manager repositories.

The preview provides a servlet (CMIS web application) packaged as a WAR (Web Application Archive) file that can be deployed in WebSphere®, to support REST services expressed in the CMIS specification. The CMIS web application translates these services at run time to Java™ API calls to the IBM FileNet and IBM Content Manager repositories. The preview uses the IBM FileNet and IBM Content Manager Java APIs to access the native repository.

You can download this preview here (30 MB).

IBM is part of the OASIS CMIS committee.

IBM is developing a Mozilla Firefox plug-in for CMIS

Nico — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:23:43 +0000

I just read on twitter that IBM is developing a Mozilla Firefox plug-in for CMIS.

This plug-in makes it possible to access document management systems that support CMIS. At the moment it’s not available as a ready to use Firefox plug-in. But you can download the source code as an Eclipse project and build it on your own.

There is a detailed example available on how to build the Firefox plug-in.

Check the IBM website to get further details about the Firefox plug-in.