[this announcement is also available online at http://s.apache.org/lX]
Open Source implementation of the CMIS standard widely used in Enterprise
Content Management solutions, such as Adobe, Alfresco, Nuxeo, OpenText, SAP,
and more.
Forest Hill, MD – 23 February 2011 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the
all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of nearly 150 Open Source
projects and initiatives, today announced that Apache Chemistry has graduated
from the Apache Incubator as a Top-Level Project (TLP). This signifies that the
Apache Chemistry community and products have been well-governed under the ASF's
meritocratic, consensus-driven process and principles.
Apache Chemistry is an Open Source implementation of the OASIS CMIS (Content
Management Interoperability Services) standard. The project provides an
interoperable API to CMIS repositories such as Alfresco, EMC Documentum, IBM
FileNet, Microsoft SharePoint, Nuxeo, OpenText Enterprise Library Services, and
other CMIS-compliant content repositories. It also provides libraries to build
CMIS-compliant repository connectors.
"Apache Chemistry is successfully driving adoption of the CMIS standard," said
Apache Chemistry Vice President Florian Müller. "An Apache Open Source
implementation of CMIS is ideal for growing a developer community around the
standard, which will improve interoperability, create new tools, and foster
innovation."
Originally submitted to the Apache Incubator in May 2009 as a single,
Java-focused project, Apache Chemistry today comprises the following
sub-projects:
1. OpenCMIS – CMIS client and server libraries for Java, as well as test tools
for content repository developers and client application developers. Version
0.2 was released in January 2011;
2. cmislib – CMIS client library for Python. Version 0.4 was released in
February 2011;
3. phpclient – CMIS client library for PHP. Already used in production, the
sub-project’s first release will be made in the near future;
4. DotCMIS – CMIS client library for .NET. Contributed to the Apache Chemistry
project in January 2011; work is underway on its initial release.
Apache Chemistry is widely used in enterprise content management solutions and
for CMIS implementation verification. Its flagship sub-project, OpenCMIS, is
deployed in both Open Source and commercial products and solutions by Adobe,
Alfresco, Metaversant, Nuxeo, OpenText, OpenWGA, and SAP, among others.
"Nuxeo is very happy to see Apache Chemistry finalize its incubation phase and
move forward to become a top-level Apache project", said Florent Guillaume,
Director of R&D at Nuxeo. "We have supported Chemistry from the start, and we
are so confident in the technology that we have included it as a core connector
for the Nuxeo Enterprise Platform. Through Chemistry, many software platforms,
such as Java, Python, PHP, and .NET, will be able to adopt the CMIS
specification, which benefits both servers storing content documents or other
assets, and the applications interacting with them."
"CMIS is here, it works and it works well," said Nathan McMinn, Software
Engineer at Ansell. "Having a standard interface to our content repositories
makes integrating Ansell's various CMS systems with our applications much
simpler. While the server support for the standard is of course essential, it
is of limited value without stable client libraries. Sure, we could write our
own client interface to CMIS, but with a project like Apache Chemistry there is
no need. Chemistry gives us the tools we need to connect most of our major
platforms (based on PHP, Python and Java) to our existing content stores,
saving us time, money and headaches in the process."
Supporting Standards Drives Industry Adoption
Many Apache Chemistry code committers are also members of the OASIS CMIS
Technical Committee. The project is community-driven, allowing for greater
transparency and direct feedback during the definition and improvement process
of future CMIS specifications. Two OpenCMIS sandbox projects are currently
being used to implement and test new CMIS 1.1 features.
"As a supporter for open source and open standards, Alfresco is pleased to have
contributed resources to the Apache Chemistry project and to see it pass
through the incubation phase," said John Newton, CTO and Chairman at Alfresco.
"Alfresco was instrumental in driving the CMIS standard from its inception. The
Apache Chemistry project will drive wider adoption of CMIS and allow developers
to build new social content management applications leveraging the Alfresco
open source platform."
"The big benefit of CMIS for customers is that it lets them do more with
content no matter where it's located across the enterprise," said Richard
Anstey, Vice President of Product Management at OpenText. "With the graduation
of Apache Chemistry to the top level, a number of barriers to broader CMIS
adoption are being removed. This will help
