topic Re: CMIS, JCR(-RMI) and the like in Alfresco Archive

CMIS, JCR(-RMI) and the like

mwildam — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:43:47 GMT

I am really getting headaches with accessing Alfresco from a separate outside application. I need to do basically CRUD things onto documents including update and retrieval of metadata.Whatever option I look at - for instance at http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Is_JCR-RMI_Right_for_Me%3F (but also many

Re: CMIS, JCR(-RMI) and the like

mrogers — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:35:02 GMT

CMIS is the way to go for CRUD access to a content repository. Failing that use the Alfresco WebScripts. Failing that use WebServices.

I've edited that wiki page.

Re: CMIS, JCR(-RMI) and the like

mwildam — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:30:37 GMT

Thank you very much for your response and updating the Wiki.

You write "JCR is being superceded by CMIS" - from what I read both specs are still under development/evolution and JCR offers more "functionality" than CMIS.

The argument that JCR is Java specific and did not get adopted yet (and maybe will never be 😉 ) by Microsoft (most appearently just for the reason being Java 😉 ) is an important one even although I stopped caring about the ignorance of Microsoft. That because Microsoft is (still) most relevant on client related stuff. If Microsoft adopts it, it will survive. From that point of view it seems that CMIS is definitely the better choice. Actually I was not considering that - so thank you very much for pointing that out in the Wiki editing.

Re: CMIS, JCR(-RMI) and the like

mwildam — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:37:15 GMT

CMIS is the way to go for CRUD access to a content repository. Failing that use the Alfresco WebScripts. Failing that use WebServices.

In reality I don't want to mix a thousands of stuff. Am I interpreting right, that the WebServices (I guess you don't mean the CMIS web services here) have the most comprehensive feature-set?

Re: CMIS, JCR(-RMI) and the like

mwildam — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:35:55 GMT

Just to let the other newcomers know: I decided to go with the remote API from SDK after trying out different stuff and have not been very successful.