Update: CMS Interoperability Project (CMIS) Making Solid Progress

With a public review of the Content Management Interoperability Specification (CMIS) (news, site) expected to be announced sometime soon, it's definitely time to check in and see what the various player have been up to.

Reminder: CMIS is an OASIS specification. It may well end up as a standard (and we hope that this happens), but it's not there yet. Here's where things stand today.

CMIS Update

First off, the latest version of the CMIS document is v0.62. If you have not yet had a look yourself, we recommend you download it (zip) and at least scan the documents so you have an idea of the project's scope.

As of press time for this article, the 0.62 version was available, but not yet finalized. Looking at the open issues, the project website shows that 133 of the 192 items have been resolved, either by being resolved, applied or closed.

Up next is a face-to-face group meeting, which is slated for sometime early August in Boulder, CO. And it's there that the spec should be locked down and the draft complete for public review.

The Public Review Process

Right now, everyone has access to the proposed CMIS specification and can make comments. The Public Review is part of the OASIS process for ratifying CMIS as an official standard. It give more widespread visibility into the project and enables the public a final chance to provide input.

The first public review must take place for 60 days. There could be additional public reviews after the first, depending upon the outcome of the first review. Any subsequent reviews must be for a period of at least 15 days. You can review the OASIS process yourself (pdf).

Apache Chemistry Project

The Apache Foundation's Chemistry project aims to create a generic, open-source, Java-language implementation of CMIS. And it has received a lot of positive feedback and picked up involvement from the major open source ECM players and even some proprietary ECM vendors.

CMIS Architecture

Here's where you can find more information:

• The proposal
• The Sandbox

CMIS FileShare

The CMIS FileShare is a development activity by Florian Müller. It provides a lightweight CMIS server based on a file share for you to test your CMIS implementations. The current implementation follows the 0.61 version of the proposed CMIS spec.

What Are Enterprise CMS Vendors Up To?

Here's a run down of what the main parties have been cooking up.

Alfresco

Everyone knows what Alfresco is up to with CMIS. We talked about their recent release of Alfresco Community 3.2 and its full implementation of the CMIS 0.61 draft. Alfresco has two committers on the Apache Chemistry project.

If you are an Alfresco developer, check out their CMIS Developer Toolbox.

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With a public review of the Content Management Interoperability Specification (CMIS) (news, site) expected to be announced sometime soon, it's definitely time to check in and see what the various player have been up to.

Reminder: CMIS is an OASIS specification. It may well end up as a standard (and we hope that this happens), but it's not there yet. Here's where things stand today.