Alfresco And Joomla Launch Industry’s First CMIS Implementation
Alfresco continues to blaze the trail when it comes to real-world implementations of the proposed Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) standard. Its latest step forward was the release this week of a module that allows integration between Alfresco and Joomla systems.
The module, built using the draft CMIS specification and developed in conjunction with Joomlatools, will allow organizations using both Alfresco’s content repository and Joomla’s content management system to link them together, more or less seamlessly.
Sharing data to become easier
Swapping information across content management repositories may become easier in the years to come, thanks to a newly released set of specifications authored by a legion of content management system vendors, including IBM, Microsoft, Alfresco, Open Text, Oracle, SAP and EMC.
The specification, called Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS), establishes how content management systems (CMSs) can use a set of Web services interfaces, as well as the REST and Atom protocols to link with other repositories. The vendors announced that it plans to submit the specs to the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS), the standards body that oversees many Web services standards today.