I would strongly recommend having the latest version of OpenCMIS always support current and back versions of the specification. Even at the cost of significant extra development.
Since OpenCMIS is now effectively the standard client library, having to use a different version to take advantage of > 1.0 versions may have the effect of slowing adoption or worse creating a implied/perceived compatibility gap between providers who move up and those that take longer to adopt 1.1. Jay Brown Senior Engineer, ECM Development IBM Software Group [email protected] |------------> | From: | |------------> >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| |Florian Müller <[email protected]> | >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| |------------> | To: | |------------> >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| |<[email protected]>, | >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| |------------> | Date: | |------------> >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| |10/26/2012 02:07 PM | >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| |------------> | Subject: | |------------> >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| |OpenCMIS and CMIS 1.1 | >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| Hi, The CMIS 1.1 specification is now stable. The public review ended about two weeks ago. That is, nothing material can be changed anymore. OpenCMIS already supports the CMIS 1.1 Browser Binding. To complete the CMIS 1.1 support, we would have to add a few new operations and constants. My vision is to support CMIS 1.0 and CMIS 1.1 with the same client library and the same server framework. The client should automatically adapt to the CMIS version of the repository. The server framework should be able provide endpoints for both CMIS versions. The alternative is to provide separate libraries for each CMIS version. That would make the internal implementation simpler, but I think that would be more cumbersome for OpenCMIS users. Any thoughts? Thanks, Florian
