Presentation from Florent Guillaume at Nuxeo World 2010 (November 17-18, 2010) on CMIS and Nuxeo.

1. Florent Guillaume — 18 nov 2010
CMIS
What's next?

2. Agenda
• Presentation of CMIS
• Screenshots
• Apache Chemistry / OpenCMIS
• Understanding CMIS
• Future
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3. Presentation of CMIS
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4. Why CMIS?
• Domain Model
• Services, objects, types, properties
• Greatest common denominator
• Transport Protocols
• REST/AtomPub, SOAP Web Services
• No Language API
• Apache Chemistry
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5. Interoperability
• Application / Repository
• Client / Server
• Application Repository
• e.g. photo management
• Repository Repository
• e.g. archival, publishing
• Repository federation
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• central access to heterogenous systems

6. CMIS Benefits
• Customer benefits
• Interoperability between vendors
• Common model
• Desilofication
• Commoditization
• Vendor benefits
• Repository vendors get more apps
• Applications vendors get more repos 6

7. CMIS Implementations
• Repositories
• Nuxeo, Alfresco, Microsoft, IBM, SAP, eXo, Day, Jahia,
KnowledgeTree, ...
• Clients
• Nuxeo, Adobe, IBM, Microsoft, eZ Publish, Plone,
Drupal, Joomla, ...
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8. History of CMIS (I)
• Founding members (from iECM) work on a new
standard
• 2006
• EMC, IBM, Microsoft
• Contributing members invited for review
• Aug 2007
• Alfresco, Open Text, Oracle, SAP
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9. History of CMIS (II)
• Draft spec submitted to OASIS
• September 2008
• OASIS committee formed
• November 2008
• First public draft released
• October 2009
• CMIS 1.0 standard approved
• May 2010
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10. History of CMIS (III)
• OASIS TC members today
• Adobe, Adullact, Alfresco, ASG Software Solutions,
Booz Allen Hamilton, Citytech, Content
Technologies, Day, dotCMS, Ektron, EMC,
Entropysoft, Exalead, FatWire, Fidelity Investments,
Flatirons Solutions, fme, Genus Technologies,
Greenbytes, Harris Corp, IBM, Magnolia, Microsoft,
Nuxeo, Open Text, Oracle, Pearson, Quark, SAP,
Saperion, Structured Software Systems, Sun,
Vamosa, Vignette, WeWebU
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11. Screenshots
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12. Nuxeo
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13. Adobe Drive 2
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14. Adobe Drive 2
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15. Nuxeo Mobile
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16. SharePoint 2010 Connector
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17. IBM FileNet P8
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18. CMIS Workbench
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19. CMIS Spaces
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20. CMIS Explorer
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21. Plone
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22. Drupal
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23. eZ Publish
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24. Joomla
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25. And many, many others...
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27. Apache Chemistry
• Incubating project
• Started in 2009
• http://incubator.apache.org/chemistry/
• Implement the whole CMIS spec
• Client-side
• Java (OpenCMIS)
• Python, PHP, JavaScript
• Server-side
• Java (OpenCMIS) 27

28. Apache Chemistry History
• Original Apache Chemistry project
• Day, Nuxeo in 2009
• OpenCMIS started privately
• Alfresco, Open Text, SAP
• Proposed to Apache in December 2009
• Chemistry and OpenCMIS merge
• 3 days of meetings in April 2010
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• OpenCMIS 0.1 released Sept. 2010

29. OpenCMIS Facts
• 90,000 lines of Java
• OSGi bundles
• 5 JARs needed for a client
• Built with Maven
• Covers all aspects of the spec
• Extensible
• Lots of tests
• Contributors
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• Nuxeo, Alfresco, Day, Open Text, SAP...

30. Understanding CMIS
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31. CMIS Bindings
• AtomPub
• ReST base
• URI templates
• SOAP
• Standardized Web Services
• Browser Bindings (work in progress)
• JSON-based
• ... more are possible 31

32. CMIS Domain Model
• Objects: Folders, Documents
• Properties
• scalars, lists
• binary content stream
• Types
• inheritance, constraints
• standard properties
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33. Folders and Documents
Folder
(root)
Folder Folder Folder
foo bar gee
Doc Folder Folder
001 blah stuff
Doc Doc Doc
123 456 789
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34. Document Properties
• 5ba79978-a87f-4146-9dd4-5197c5ac0962
• cmis:objectId: 5ba79978-a87f-4146-9dd4-5197c5ac0962
• cmis:objectTypeId: invoice
• cmis:name: My Document
• cmis:creationDate: 2010-01-25T10:20:53.286-08:00
• cmis:createdBy: florent
• cmis:contentStreamFileName: mydocument.pdf
• cmis:contentStreamMimeType: application/pdf
• cmis:isLatestVersion: true
• cmis:versionLabel: 1.5
• dc:subject: [example, sample, frobs] 34
• dc:description: invoice for the frobmachin de janvier

35. Type Definition
• invoice
• id: invoice
• localName: t-invoice
• displayName: Invoice
• baseId: cmis:document
• parentId: record
• fileable: true
• queryable: true
• fulltextIndexed: true
• controllableACL: false
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36. Type Definition Properties
• invoice
• cmis:objectId: ID
• cmis:objectTypeId: ID
• cmis:name: String
• cmis:creationDate: DateTime (read-only)
• cmis:createdBy: String (read-only)
• cmis:lastModificationDate: DateTime
• cmis:isLatestVersion: Boolean
• dc:subject: String (multi-valued, not required)
• dc:description: String
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37. CMIS Services
• CRUD
• Queries
• Versioning
• Renditions
• Change Log
• Repository Info, Types
• (Multi-Filing, ACLs, Relationships, Policies)
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38. Repository Info
• When connecting, list repositories
• Find out repository capabilities
• Implemented services, tree-based navigation, multi-
filing, unfiling, query capabilities, ...
• Get repository-wide information
• Description, vendor, CMIS version, ...
• Root folder ID
• Latest change log token 38

39. Retrieve
• By ID (5ba79978-a87f-4146-9dd4-5197c5ac0962)
• By Path (/default-domain/workspace/main/mydoc)
• By Query on properties / content
• Parent(s) / Children / Tree
• Content Stream
• Allowable Actions
• Renditions
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40. Query
• Retrieve by properties / content
• SQL-like Language: CMISQL
• Type → Table
• Object → Row
• Property → Column
• Multi-Valued, Fulltext with score, JOIN
• SELECT only
• no UPDATE or DELETE 40

41. Create, Update, Delete
• Create
• May include a content stream
• Update
• May verify a change token (optimistic locking)
• May change ID (auto-versioning)
• May check in
• Delete
• May delete all versions 41

42. Versioning
• Version series
• Private working copy
• Check in, Check out
• Get all versions
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43. Renditions
• Retrieve only
• Additional content streams
• MIME type, kind, title, size
• Various uses
• thumbnail / icon (current Nuxeo)
• conversions (future)
• PDF, HTML
• Multi-page 43

44. Relationships
• Source, Target
• Unfiled
• Not versionable
• May use referential integrity
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45. Change Log
• List of chronological changes
• Create, update, delete
• ID of object
• (Properties, ACLs)
• Since a given date (change log token)
• May not be available since “forever”
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46. Multi-Filing, Unfiling
• Only for documents, not folders
• Zero, one or more parents
• All parents are equivalent
• Different paths
• (If paths are supported)
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47. Folders and Documents
Folder
(root)
Folder Folder Folder
foo bar gee
Doc Folder Folder
001 blah stuff
Doc Doc Doc
123 456 789
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48. Multi-Filing, Unfiling
Folder
(root)
Folder Folder Folder
foo bar gee
Doc Folder Folder
001 blah stuff
Doc Doc Doc Doc
123 456 789 333
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49. Future
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50. Future of CMIS
• CMIS 1.1
• Late 2011
• Errata, clarifications
• Additional bindings
• (Type mutability)
• CMIS 2.0
• Late 2012
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• Bigger features, non-backward compat

51. Future of CMIS in Nuxeo
• Relations
• Full Renditions
• ACLs
• Multi-filing
• Extensions
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52. Relations
• Find user-level relations
• Find comments, forums, annotations, ...
• Find tags
• Query with JOIN on relations
• Migrate from Jena to VCS
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53. Full Renditions
• Already expose icon (thumbnail)
• Expose conversions
• PDF renditions
• HTML renditions
• Resized images
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54. ACLs
• Expose ACLs
• Allow ACL changes
• Grant or deny permissions
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55. Multi-Filing
• Make proxies accessible
• Multi-filing of the target version object
• Allow proxy creation
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56. Extensions
• Complex properties access
• Improve CMISQL expressivity
• DISTINCT, COUNT, GROUP BY, date arithmetic,
extended CONTAINS
• Transaction demarcation
• Locking
• Workflow
• Content automation (Operations) 56

57. Thank you!

58. Questions?
• http://doc.nuxeo.com/display/NXDOC/CMIS+for
+Nuxeo
• http://docs.oasis-open.org/cmis/CMIS/v1.0/cs01/
cmis-spec-v1.0.html
• http://incubator.apache.org/chemistry/
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