Archive for August, 2009

(The first part of this series described the first day of the meeting.)

On the second day of the CMIS face-to-face meeting we again spent some quality time reading the spec nearly line by line, making sure everything is coherent, and discussing a few important points that people felt were important for their use cases.

Below I’ll outline some important changes made to the spec on the first and second day of this meeting. There’s more of course, you may want to follow everything in the CMIS JIRA.

The XML and XHTML property types are gone. No vendor was in support of them, and it was actually quite hard to standardize on exactly what kind of XML would be stored in such a property (well-formed? fragment? etc.). We kept the HTML property type, as many repositories still want to distinguish between “basic text” and “rich text”, especially for … Read more

Yesterday was the first day of the CMIS Technical Committee face-to-face meeting. This time we’re grateful to Oracle for hosting us in their offices in Boulder, Colorado.

Here are a few highlights of what transpired during this first day.

First, CMIS is really taking hold inside the big companies in this TC. Most of them plan to make available, privately to other TC members, some test versions of the CMIS servers they are working on, to ensure interoperability as early as possible. Of course these face-to-face meetings are also designed as “plugfests”, where we set up test servers and let other’s clients connect to them, but it’s important to have it continue beyond these three days of meetings. It’s unfortunate that these servers can’t be public, but it’s a fact of life inside big companies that you can’t publicly speak about or show what you’re working on.

Of course in … Read more