Case Study for CMIS and Alfresco

Question

I am very new to enterprise content management concepts.

I would like to do a small hands or a case study before we embark on the full fledged thing. My work will be mainly on the client side so I would like to get more experience in consuming server content.

For that I needed to get some experience on CMIS apis and their consumption.

I plan to develop a plain eclipse based client for the server. I would like to see the content in Eclipse RCP app.Kind of what alfresco explorer does.

I don't want install an alfresco server for myself as I would not work on the server side. How can I use an Alfresco server for my case study? Should I use the public alfresco server or the cloud based alfresco server?

Also please provide suggestions on my case study.

Answer 1

Ok..feeling much more enlightened after 4 hrs of CMIS and Alfresco exploration.

My query of getting a server got resolved by accessing the public cmis alfresco server which is available at http://cmis.alfresco.com/

I also downloaded CMIS Workbench for windows and have setup the alfresco server locally.

Both the servers can be connected with my java client (using Apache Chemisty libs). to connect remotely to the Alfresco server a local resovable name should be used. IP is not recognized.

One more option is to get a free trial from the alfresco cloud.

cheers, Saurav