Managing your context with alfresco and create interfaces to your content through CMIS

1. Alfresco and CMIS
JHUG 21/01/2012
Yiannis Koutros

2. Timeline
• Alfresco features
• Alfresco as a Document Management System
• External Integration

3. Alfresco Software Story
• Established as company in 2005
• Cofounded by John Newton from
Documentum and John Powell from Business
Objects
• Tom Baeyens and Joram Barrez - 2011- Activiti
Alfresco Allows Companies To Deploy Flexible And Cost-
Efficient ECM Solutions, Forrester Consulting, Dec 2011

4. Alfresco feats
• Document Management
• Record Management
• Web content management
• Collaborations (document centric, alternative
to Microsoft Sharepoint)

5. Architecture
Repository Interface
Repository
Index
Database File System
Repository

6. Repository
Node Service Search Service
Content Service
Query and index
Alfresco components components
Alfresco
components
Hibernate Lucene
Database Content Storage Index Storage

7. Document Management System
• Data Dictionary
• Aspects
• Powerful Search engine (Lucene)
• Workflow (JBPM – Activiti)
• Pluggable authentication (AD, LADP, Kerberos
CAS)
• Collaboration tools

8. Authentication
• NTLM
• LDAP
• Kerberos
• CAS

9. Aspects
Collection of properties
• Versioning
• Localizable
• Translatable
• Dublin Core
• Effectivity
• Summarizable

10. Custom Aspects
Create aspect Show this documents for a guest
Query based on this aspect
isPublishedForGuest or not

11. Transformations
• From Word to PDF
• From big image to small image
• From DOC to ODF
• From PPT to flash

12. Workflow
• Simple workflow
• Advanced workflow
– JBPM until version 4.0
– Activiti after version 4.0

13. External Integration
CIFS
Sharepoint
Protocol FTP
ECM
Java
JCR API
CMIS
Web
WebDAV
Services

14. CMIS
• Content Management Interoperability
Services
• SQL for databases = CMIS for content
management
• Support extensions
• Support from
Adobe, Alfresco, EMC, eXo, FatWire, HP, IBM, I
SIS Papyrus, Open Text, Oracle

15. CMIS Features
• HTTP Based
• CRUD Operations
• Versioning
• ACL
• Change Log
• Query: SELECT cmis:name FROM
cmis:document

16. CMIS with
• 2010-09-17 => 0.1.0 - Incubation Release
• 2011-12-09 => 0.6.0
• Support for Atom Syndication Format (Apache
Abdera ) and Web Services (Apache CXF)
• Alfresco OpenCMIS Extension