We've built a product using Apache Chemistry and CMIS 1.1 (Java based
OpenCMIS). We've also discovered that managing ACL-related items OUTSIDE of
the 'CMIS band' is far better and avoids "cluttering" the Document
repository with "user/group/permission" semantics -- *especially when the
number of us
Hi Kai-Uwe,
There have been many and long discussions about this. It's a very
complex topic. There is no common understanding of a principal, a user,
a group, or a role and the metadata around them. There are repositories
that don't even have access the user management and wouldn't be able to
Hi Florian,
this is defiantly a weakness of CMIS in the area of DMS/Collaboration. Having a
protocol with a standardized way to access users and groups would help
repository vendors a lot to support the CMIS protocol. Users and groups are
nearly the same important as documents and folders.
Ka
