topic Re: New OpenSource CMIS Sync utility in Alfresco Archive

New OpenSource CMIS Sync utility

smcardle — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 22:38:53 GMT

Hi AllI have just uploaded a couple of new projects to SourceForge under the Apache 2.0 license to enable synchronisation between any CMIS 1.0+ enabled Repository, such as Alfresco, and ANY File System you have access to, including Networked drives.I actually wrote these because of issues I had with

Re: New OpenSource CMIS Sync utility

aevans713 — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 02:20:23 GMT

Looks great! I created a couple of entries in the Alfresco Add-ons directory with just the basic info I was able to gather from sourceforge. I want to invite you to check them out, create an account, and update them and add any details I left out. It would be a great way to help the community find and use it!

eSync: https://addons.alfresco.com/addons/esync
eDrive: https://addons.alfresco.com/addons/edrive

Some things that need to be added to the listing:
-Alfresco version(s) supported

Thanks!

Re: New OpenSource CMIS Sync utility

smcardle — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 03:28:19 GMT

Hi

I created an account for Alfresco Add-ons (smcardle) but how do I get admin rights to these 2 projects so that I can edit the details ?

Regards

Steve

Re: New OpenSource CMIS Sync utility

nicolasraoul — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 10:23:45 GMT

Hi Steve!

Sounds very promising! I get this error when deploying, though: https://gist.github.com/nicolas-raoul/5353128

Don't take it as disrespect, but rather than re-inventing the wheel, how about joining forces on <a href="http://CmisSync.com">CmisSync</a>? 🙂
CmisSync is open source since August 2012, and supports multiple repositories&folders (like eDrive).

It is written in C#, which is very close to Java, and allows a native UI on Windows, and other Mono-supported platforms: Mac, Linux, Android, iOS (not ported yet). I love open source so I would prefer Java, but native offers better integration, for instance when integrating controls into the Windows Explorer. Also, even though Java is perfect on server-side, many companies are reluctant to install Java on client-side, because of management/security issues.
Here is the documentation about <a href="https://github.com/nicolas-raoul/CmisSync/wiki/Internals">the internals</a>.

CmisSync has a rather large number of testers, a few developers, and is available in 7 languages.
Here are <a href="http://cmissync.com/alfresco">screenshots with Alfresco</a>.

We are very welcoming and looking for volunteers!
Feel free to contact me by email at nicolas.raoul@aegif.jp
Cheers!
Nicolas

Re: New OpenSource CMIS Sync utility

smcardle — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 13:37:33 GMT

Hi Nicolas

Thanks for taking a look at eDrive.

I will take a look at the build issue you are having but it's working for me so it might take a bit more investigation. We do normally run these maven goals from within Eclipse but I did just try it on the command like and it built and installed OK. I'll let you know what I find. In the mean time, you could just install the eSync jar file to your local maven repo.

Basically we decided to take a completely different approach to Native Client development. The reason I designed the socket based command server and multicast event server was so that ANYBODY could write a light weight native UI for Windows Explorer, Mac OSX Finder the various versions of Linux File Managers, Swing and Web UI clients without having to include any eSync or eDrive libraries or API's in their projects. They simply connect to the command server socket and issue simple commands while listening and reacting to events from the multicast server. This also means we do not have to get involved in the language translations but we would hope that popular UI's will be translated by the Open Source community. In the mean time we will continue developing our own set of Branded UI's.

With this approach the Open Source community can build a good choice of light weight UI's while other users may choose to integrate directly with other solutions. One such client could be a Round Robin DB application that simply listens for eDrive Multicast events and aggregates the results then generates real time performance and monitoring graphs.

We wrote eDrive because we could not meet our use cases with the existing Alfresco Desktop Sync product and some of our users wanted a more DrobBox like experience, this is why we are currently writing our own branded light weight native Windows Explorer client ourselves.

We have some pretty good stuff planed for future releases of eDrive and not just in the sync space. This release was designed to get some feedback, the next release will add some Enterprise features such as SSL and Proxy support as well as a pluggable authentication module based on JAAS and a user configurable mime type mapping where users will be able to setup mappings for document mime types to custom Repository types other than just the current default cmis:document type. This will allow eSync to create new Repository entries using base types defined by users falling back to the cmis:document should the mapped type not exist in the Repository or is not a suitable base type for the content.

Anyway I digress, I have no issues with EOSSOnline Limited Collaborating with you guys on a generic Open Source solution that the community can get behind. We as a company have only one condition and that is joint IP ownership (where we can provide our customers with a different license) along with an Apache 2.0 licensed version. If you guys are OK with this then we can talk more.

Regards

Steve

Re: New OpenSource CMIS Sync utility

smcardle — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 21:22:43 GMT

Hi Nicolas

Regarding your build problem. I have attached a new pom.xml file that I hope will fix your build problem. Could you try it out and let me know.

You will need to remove the .txt from the end of the file

Regards

Steve

Re: New OpenSource CMIS Sync utility

smcardle — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 21:26:24 GMT

Funny….

I can't see on this new forum where the attachments to posts are.
I'll try again.

Regards

Re: New OpenSource CMIS Sync utility

aevans713 — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 21:51:34 GMT

Hi,

1. The forum attachment bug is a known issue we are working on with the site (see issues.alfresco.com ticket: IT-10491). I would suggest using pastebin or mediafire links.
2. I made you the owner of your addons, you should be able to edit them now.

Alex Evans

Re: New OpenSource CMIS Sync utility

smcardle — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 22:05:13 GMT

Thanks evens

In the mean time….

<blockcode>
            <plugin>
               <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
               <artifactId>maven-source-plugin</artifactId>
               <version>2.2.1</version>
               <executions>
                  <execution>
                     <id>attach-sources</id>
                     <goals>
                        <goal>jar</goal>
                     </goals>
                  </execution>
               </executions>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
               <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
               <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
               <version>2.3.2</version>
               <configuration>
                  <source>1.7</source>
                  <target>1.7</target>
               </configuration>
            </plugin>

</blockcode>

Anybody having trouble running the mvn install goal on eSync should modify their pom.xml

Add the version number to the existing maven-source-plugin

and add the maven-compiler-plugin

Regards

Steve

Re: New OpenSource CMIS Sync utility

smcardle — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 02:12:12 GMT

Just uploaded new versions of both eSync and eDrive to SourceForge is anybody is interested

Latest versions are:

eSync - 0.9.1
eDrive - 0.1.1

Regards

steve