Hi,

Most of you on this list have heard about OpenCMIS. The OpenCMIS project has
been founded by Alfresco, Open Text and SAP to build CMIS related libraries and
tools for Java. In December last year we proposed a new Incubator project. Based
on subsequent discussions we now would like to follow Florents and Jukkas
invitation and contribute our code to Chemistry. With this email I would like to
start a discussion if this is feasible and how this would look like.

OpenCMIS currently consists of the following parts:

- A low level CMIS client library. It is feature complete, supports the AtomPub
and Web Services binding and has been tested against a number of different CMIS
repositories (OpenCMIS, Alfresco, Open Text, Chemistry, and a few more that I
can't name here). There is a binding independent test suite that covers 3/4 of
the CMIS specification.

- A high level CMIS client library that sits on top of the low level client. It
provides a nice Java API, session handling, etc. It is currently under
development.

- A CMIS server. It is feature complete and supports the AtomPub and Web
Services binding.

- An InMemory test repository for the CMIS server. A file system based test
repository is under development and should be available soon.

- A web based browser for CMIS repositories (AtomPub only).

Our main priority at the moment is to finish the high level client. The next
step is an extensive test framework. There are also several ideas for CMIS tools
based on the client library. The code is already open source under the Apache license and can be found here:
http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/opencmis/trunk

Please let us know what you think.

Regards,

Florian