Archive for June, 2009

By now, most of you should have heard about CMIS, the upcoming specification that promises interoperability between many systems for common content management tasks. The CMIS specification is being driven by an OASIS Technical Committee and is currently still a draft; it is expected to be finalized late 2009 or early 2010.

I won’t detail here all that CMIS will bring, this has been covered extensively already and will be even more in the future… No, the purpose of this article is to present Chemistry.

Chemistry

Chemistry is a new Apache project for CMIS that started incubating recently (“incubation” is the term used in the Apache Software Foundation for young projects that still have to prove themselves). Chemistry’s goal is to provide general purposes libraries for interaction using CMIS between a server and a client. These libraries are mainly written in Java, but some JavaScript code has been … Read more

A few weeks ago I gave an interview to Irina Guseva of CMSWire. We touched the subjects of strategic value of CMIS, Apache Chemistry project history, partnerships, open source, future plans around CMIS, and more.

Chemistry has extremely ambitious plans. We believe that it can become the de facto bridge between most of the Java-based content-oriented products, allowing a very wide variety of back-ends and applications to be connected together. And actually Java is not the sole language that this project is targeting, as David Nuescheler is also working on a JavaScript library for CMIS. In the coming month you should see an exponential increase in the functionality that Chemistry provides…

You can read the full article at CMSWire.… Read more