Summary

In this chapter, we introduced the CMIS standard and how it came about. A couple of use cases, such as one client accessing multiple repositories, were presented, which illustrated the need for the standard. Then we covered the CMIS domain model with its five base object types: document, folder, relationship, policy, and item (CMIS 1.1.). We also learned that the CMIS standard defines a number of services, such as navigation and discovery, which makes it possible to manipulate objects in a content management system repository. And finally, we looked at how we can communicate over the wire with a CMIS-compliant repository; this can be done with, for example, a REST-based approach over HTTP.

So now that we know what CMIS is, let's take it for a spin. In the next chapter, we will start using it and see how we can manipulate objects in a CMIS-compliant repository.