Today is a great day for Apache Chemistry: the OpenCMIS community just added their very exciting code base. And more importantly: the OpenCMIS community joined the Chemistry community.
The contribution consists of a general purpose java client that already seems very well architected and already very mature in its code base, granted that CMIS is not even released as a 1.0 yet. This will definitely help to advance the efforts of Chemistry both on the Server and on the Client. I am convinced that all the lessons learned from OpenCMIS will be greatly appreciated by the Chemistry community and will have a very positive impact on the joint code base.
From an Apache community standpoint I think it is very noteworthy that the list of contributors of OpenCMIS includes people from various companies, so I would like to take this opportunity to welcome the following people into the Chemistry community and thank them for their outstanding achievement.
- David Caruana (Alfresco) (existing Chemistry PMC member)
- David Ward (Alfresco)
- Florian Müller (Open Text)
- Jens Hübel (Open Text)
- Martin Hermes (SAP)
- Paul Goetz (SAP)
- Stephan Klevenz (SAP)
Since I had the pleasure to work with most of them before I am really looking forward to our joint work in Chemistry as a community open source project.