Craig’s Musings

First of all, I echo what Mark posted about the refreshment that comes from talking with people face-to-face that I typically communicate with less personally (e.g. IM, email, wiki, blog, etc.).
Being at the conference in person also allowed me to meet several folks for the first time.
Right before lunch, I spent some time talking with [...]

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This week has seen REST experts Roy Fielding and Sam Ruby comment on CMIS. As someone directly involved in CMIS, I wanted to acknowledge both Roy’s remarks and Sam’s remarks, which follow onto Roy’s.
The standards effort based in OASIS that is CMIS is indeed just getting started, as Sam notes. There is a lot of [...]

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I apologize for the short notice, but I will be presenting a webinar on Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) this Thursday. Registration is still open: http://www.emc.com/events/2008/q3/09-18-08-cmis-launch.htm. I hope that you can not only listen to the presentation but also participate actively in the Q&A portion.
If you cannot participate but are still interested in CMIS, I [...]

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I am excited to (finally) say that EMC, IBM and Microsoft have announced the creation of a jointly developed interface specification called Content Management Interoperability Services, or CMIS. This is important news for the industry as CMIS uses web services to provide greater interoperability across multiple Enterprise Content Management (ECM) repositories.
The current draft specification will [...]

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My friend and colleague Paul Warren recently posted content that talks about the creation of Enterprise Content Services (like those in DFS) in the context of an integrated development environment (IDE):

Creating DFS services using Documentum Composer
Creating DFS services using the Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers

WTP support is something the Composer team is hard at [...]

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