Migration from CMOD to Alfresco

[praveen33in]

Hi,
I am new to Alfresco and going through many documentation to get familiar with Alfresco. However, I am not getting the point what is needed for me.
Our intention is to migrate the documents and Metadata from IBM CMOD to Alfresco. I would like to know:
    1. How to create Application Groups and Applications in Alfresco? Does the answer for this is "creating Spaces"
    2. In CMOD we use "arsload" to load documents, does Alfresco have anything similar?
    3. How to load the Documents and corresponding Metadata as a batch job to Alfresco?
Any help on above questions is really appreciated.
Thanks in Advance,

[jpotts]

It is likely that very few of us know anything about CMOD so you may need to provide more context and additional detail. I don't know what Application Groups, Applications, or "arsload" is, for example.

As far as loading documents and metadata, you can use the <a href="https://code.google.com/p/alfresco-bulk-filesystem-import/">Bulk File System Import Tool (BFSIT)</a>. You can also use the <a href="http://chemistry.apache.org/">CMIS API</a> to load documents and metadata.

Jeff

[praveen33in]

Thanks Jeff. I am able to load the documents to Alfresco using BFSIT. I have used the core Java utilities to create and trigger the URL for loading the documents. However, I feel it is better to use the BFSIT JAR so that I can use the classes - BulkImportParameters, StreamingNodeImporterFactory, NodeImporter,etc. Can you please guide me on how could I get those pre-defined Java classes so that I can use them in my code.

Praveen

[jpotts]

Are you looking for the Bulk File System Import Tool (BFSIT) source code? If so, it lives here:
http://code.google.com/p/alfresco-bulk-filesystem-import/

Jeff