Comments on: Drupal, Django, and Alfresco in Chicago http://ecmarchitect.com/archives/2009/04/28/981 Jeff Potts on ECM, portals, search, collaboration, and a bunch of personal stuff Mon, 14 May 2012 10:48:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: jpotts http://ecmarchitect.com/archives/2009/04/28/981/comment-page-1#comment-34446 jpotts Thu, 30 Apr 2009 01:16:51 +0000 http://ecmarchitect.com/?p=981#comment-34446 The biggest difference is that that one leverages Alfresco's SOAP Web Services API whereas ours is 100% CMIS via REST. I believe another big difference is that ours gives you the option of moving nodes between the two systems without requiring anything specific from a model perspective on either side. If I remember correctly, that one uses special "Alfresco" nodes on the Drupal side. I can't remember if it requires anything on the Alfresco side. We think CMIS is the key to interoperability between Drupal and all kinds of repositories, which is what people face in the real world. We don't want to have to build one-off integrations between every front-end and every back-end. Hopefully, by leveraging CMIS, we can avoid that. Hope that helps, Jeff PS. Thanks for attending the meetup today and listening to the presentation! The biggest difference is that that one leverages Alfresco’s SOAP Web Services API whereas ours is 100% CMIS via REST. I believe another big difference is that ours gives you the option of moving nodes between the two systems without requiring anything specific from a model perspective on either side. If I remember correctly, that one uses special “Alfresco” nodes on the Drupal side. I can’t remember if it requires anything on the Alfresco side.

We think CMIS is the key to interoperability between Drupal and all kinds of repositories, which is what people face in the real world. We don’t want to have to build one-off integrations between every front-end and every back-end. Hopefully, by leveraging CMIS, we can avoid that.

Hope that helps,

Jeff

PS. Thanks for attending the meetup today and listening to the presentation!

]]> By: Tim http://ecmarchitect.com/archives/2009/04/28/981/comment-page-1#comment-34438 Tim Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:34:38 +0000 http://ecmarchitect.com/?p=981#comment-34438 Hello Jeff, caught your presentation at the alfresco chicago meetup. I see you module now and was also looking at this module: http://drupal.org/project/alfresco wondering what the differences might be... Hello Jeff, caught your presentation at the alfresco chicago meetup. I see you module now and was also looking at this module: http://drupal.org/project/alfresco

wondering what the differences might be…

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