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Alfresco CMIS

By : Martin Bergljung
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Alfresco CMIS

By: Martin Bergljung

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Alfresco CMIS
Martin Bergljung
Mar, 2014 | 272 pages
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Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Alfresco CMIS
Alfresco CMIS
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
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1
Getting Started with CMIS
Getting Started with CMIS
Understanding CMIS
Commercial products and companies supporting CMIS
The benefits of using CMIS
CMIS use cases
An overview of the CMIS standard
Summary
2
Basic CMIS Operations
Basic CMIS Operations
Setting up a CMIS server
Setting up a tool to make HTTP requests
Authenticating with the repository
Getting repository information
Listing the children of the root folder
Optional parameters when listing the children of a folder
Listing available types and subtypes
Getting metadata and content
Creating, updating, and deleting content
Summary
3
Advanced CMIS Operations
Advanced CMIS Operations
Version management with check out and check in
Managing permissions for documents and folders
Managing relationships between objects
Searching
A word on transactions
Summary
4
Alfresco and CMIS
Alfresco and CMIS
Timeline
Architecture/stack
Alfresco content model mapping to the CMIS object model
Support for Alfresco-specific features
Summary
5
Accessing a CMIS Server with a Java Client
Accessing a CMIS Server with a Java Client
Setting up a build environment
Connecting and setting up a session with the repository
Getting repository information
Listing the children of the root/top folder
Optional parameters when listing the children of a folder
Listing available types and subtypes
Creating, updating, and deleting content
Getting the content for a document
Copying and moving folders and documents
Working with Alfresco aspects
Version management with check out and check in
Managing permissions for documents and folders
Managing relationships between objects
Searching
Summary
6
Accessing a CMIS Server Using Scripting Languages
Accessing a CMIS Server Using Scripting Languages
Using CMIS in JavaScript and web application pages
Using CMIS in Groovy scripts
Using CMIS in Spring Surf Web Scripts
Summary
7
System Integration with CMIS
System Integration with CMIS
Integrating Drupal with a CMS server
Enterprise integration with CMIS
Talking to Alfresco in the Cloud via CMIS
Summary
Index
Index

Timeline

The support for CMIS in Alfresco has evolved over a number of years. The following diagram shows the timeline:

Alfresco was one of the first companies to support CMIS, making a CMIS v0.5 implementation available in 2008. In 2009, Alfresco started to host an online server where people could try out the CMIS standard. This server, which is accessible via the http://cmis.alfresco.com URL, supports the CMIS 1.0 standard and the Browser binding, which is based on the CMIS 1.1 draft.

In mid 2010, Alfresco released both a Community version and an Enterprise version that supported the recently-approved CMIS 1.0 standard.

With Version 4.0 of the server, Alfresco switched from using a home-grown CMIS runtime based on Apache Abdera libraries to handle AtomPub protocol implementation, to using the OpenCMIS Server Framework. This was done to be able to benefit the users from the development of this framework that is used by many CMIS servers. It also made the OpenCMIS Java API available for developers...

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