topic Re: Support for CMIS in Share in Alfresco Archive

Support for CMIS in Share

ghernando — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:56:34 GMT

Hello,I am familiar with Alfresco CMIS services and I know that Alfresco is a big promoter of CMIS.So I could build my own CMIS application that uses a CMIS repository like Alfresco, but what about Alfresco's own application Share?Am I able to plug Share into another CMIS-complient repository?I've s

Re: Support for CMIS in Share

stevegreenbaum — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:23:34 GMT

Share was released prior to CMIS specification being available.

Re: Support for CMIS in Share

mrogers — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 06:51:45 GMT

No Share will not run on another repository, since it provides more functionality than is available via CMIS and depends upon other interfaces provided by Alfresco.

I'm sure there will be a CMIS browser for Surf at some time that would allow you to browse any CMIS repo and other products
that connect to Alfresco via CMIS. However it probably won't be Share.

Re: Support for CMIS in Share

ghernando — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 18:13:50 GMT

Thanks for your responses.

>> Share was released prior to CMIS specification being available.
That didn't stop Alfresco from releasing a CMIS API prior to it becoming a standard.

In the Alfresco Product marketing slides it says the following as a description of Records Management:
"The First CMIS-enabled Records Management Solution for Federated Access".
http://www.slideshare.net/alfresco/introducing-alfresco-community-edition-32 Slide 26
I've seen similar quotes in other Alfresco marketing.
Is this just wrong? Or premature?