Releasedate of CMIS API for FileNet P8

[stw]

Today I got the information from IBM at their Information On Demand conference that they will release their CMIS-API for FileNet P8 with the next release till end of November 2010. This is great news as we already tested  OpenWorkdesk Community Edt. heavily against the FileNet P8 CMIS API and it works very well. Thanks a lot to the IBM Lab for the great teamwork.

🙂 stw

[stw]

FileNet P8 CM V5.0 was released Nov 19th 2010 and officially supports CMIS.
http://bit.ly/bUvXg1

So FileNet P8 customers can now use the Open Source OpenWorkdesk Community Edition as an alternative to expensive custom code developments to fulfill the requirements regarding an ergonomic UI of their business applications.

🙂 stw

New features in FileNet Content Manager V5.0

Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) support
CMIS support becomes available for the first time as a result of bundling the new IBM Content Management Interoperability Services for FileNet Content Manager as a non-chargeable bundled component in IBM FileNet Content Manager.
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[choracy]

Stefan,

I'm just installing-configuring CMIS for FileNet P8 5.1 which is deployed in a WAS 7.0 app server and REALLY anxious to test OpenWorkDesk.

I understand OpenWorkDesk must be installed in Apache Tomcat.

I have no clue hot to configure OpenWorkDesk to use P8 CMIS, is there a guide or any kind of documentation for it?

Regs

[rapa]

Hi Choracy,

please get the latest version of the OpenWorkdesk installation guide from http://openworkdesk.org/content/guides There you find a detailed description of how to deploy and configure OpenWorkdesk, select the correct adapter and where to enter the connection data.

Have fun!

Rainer

[apentier]

Rainer, thanx for the tip! 

[deko]

Hi Choracy,
Hi Apentier,

the OpenWorkdesk Installation Guide should be a good starting point to get a clue how to configure the CMIS adapter of OpenWorkdesk in general. There is no in-depth documentation for P8 CMIS as OpenWorkdesk Enterprise Edition has a native P8 adapter and as we can´t describe configuration for every CMIS compliant repository.

What you need to configure is the file owbootstrap.xml under WEB-INF/conf/cmis and change the <WSDL> nodes like in the following example:

<WSDLRepository>http://<P8-SERVER>:<PORT>/<P8-CMIS-DEPLOYMENT-NAME>/wsdl</WSDLRepository>
<WSDLNavigation>http://<P8-SERVER>:<PORT>/<P8-CMIS-DEPLOYMENT-NAME>/wsdl</WSDLNavigation>
<WSDLObject>http://<P8-SERVER>:<PORT>/<P8-CMIS-DEPLOYMENT-NAME>/fncmis/wsdl</WSDLObject>
<WSDLMultifiling>http://<P8-SERVER>:<PORT>/<P8-CMIS-DEPLOYMENT-NAME>/wsdl</WSDLMultifiling>
<WSDLDiscovery>http://<P8-SERVER>:<PORT>/<P8-CMIS-DEPLOYMENT-NAME>/wsdl</WSDLDiscovery>
<WSDLVersioning>http://<P8-SERVER>:<PORT>/<P8-CMIS-DEPLOYMENT-NAME>/wsdl</WSDLVersioning>
<WSDLRelationship>http://<P8-SERVER>:<PORT>/<P8-CMIS-DEPLOYMENT-NAME>/wsdl</WSDLRelationship>
<WSDLPolicy>http://<P8-SERVER>:<PORT>/<P8-CMIS-DEPLOYMENT-NAME>/wsdl</WSDLPolicy>‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

Please replace the placeholders <P8-SERVER>, <PORT>, <P8-CMIS-DEPLOYMENT-NAME> in the example above according to your P8 CMIS environment.

[choracy]

Great!

I was about to clarify that I was not going to use P8 adaptor, but CMIS.

Found the owbootstrap.xml in page 33 of the manual and I was about to start playing with the parameters.

Your post came just in the prefect time for me!

Thanks!

[choracy]

Ok, a couple of questions.

I need to also comment out Alfresco cloud, correct?

Alfresco local has "/RepositoryService?wsdl</WSDLRepository>" instead of "/wsdl</WSDLRepository". Shall I change to this format?

How is authentication handled? I login with a P8 user credentials? Is there something I have to configure for LDAP security?

[choracy]

Figured it out!

Works, but somehow I can only add folders in the first object store, can't understand why..

[rapa]

Hi all,

if you want test OpenWorkdesk against P8 you can also get a 30 day test version of the full fledged Enterprise Edition, that connects to P8 5.x via a brand new native adapter and besides the content integration also supports P8 BPM. There is also a test version of Zero-Install Desktop Integration available. Just go to http://www.wewebu.com/en/try-openworkdesk in order to apply for the test licenses.

Cheers,

Rainer