Talking to Alfresco in the Cloud via CMIS

The Alfresco CMS server that we have been using throughout this book is also available as a Cloud service. It's free and it's easy to set up an account and get our own CMS service in the cloud. Besides using the normal Alfresco Share UI to manage content in the cloud, we can also use CMIS to talk to our Alfresco Cloud instance.

This section will go through how to use CMIS to talk to Alfresco in the cloud.

Setting up an account

The first thing we need to do is to create an account for the Alfresco Cloud service. This can be done from the http://www.alfresco.com/products/cloud page, which at the time of writing this book, offered a 10 GB free storage area in the cloud. However, this is if signing up with a company e-mail address (might work for private e-mails when this book is published). Fill in your company e-mail address and click on the Get Started button.

You will receive a welcome e-mail with an Activate Account button; click on it and it will take...