A short video demonstrating Alfresco IMAP integration

A short video from Alfresco's partner Zia Consulting demonstrating how IMAP integration works in Alfresco. You can access and iteract the whole document repository from a regular email client, like Outlook, Thunderbird or Apple Mail. This opens a set of possible interesting use cases within a company, and doesn't force some employees to learn a new tool to effectively use the document management system.

Some more links about email management with Alfresco:

• IMAP on Alfresco Wiki
• Mounting Alfresco as IMAP mount point
• Upload files to Alfresco via email

Alfresco Developer Conference 2010

Where: Paris Marriott Rive Gauche Hotel and Conference Center
When: October 20 and 21, 2010

Register here.

There is another session in New York City, on November 3 and 4.

"The agenda includes deep dive sessions on CMIS, WCM, content services and best practices for ECM application development. You'll also have a chance to learn about Activiti, the open source project that implements the new BPMN 2.0 standard. We are looking for some community members to talk about how you are using Alfresco, let us know if you are interested."

OpenESB Summit 2010 in Brussels

The OpenESB community now has a new web site:

http://www.openesb-community.org/

Authors write:
"This site is dedicated to the OpenESB community. The aim of this site is not to to create a substitute to the previous sites dedicated to OpenESB. We simply try to fuel up the community with news, papers, blogs users feedback about OpenESB."

The OpenESB community is trying hard to survive the impact of Oracle's acquisition, which has stopped most of OpenESB development and practically killed Project Fuji.

To revamp OpenESB is now mandatory creating a bigger and stronger open community around the product. Some companies seems the most active at present, the ones I know are: Logicoy, ForgeRock and Pymma.

This effort will be illustrated in the forthcoming OpenESB Summit 2010, Brussels (Belgium) Monday 4th and Tuesday 5th of October 2010.

On the other hand, I think the OpenESB (and JBI, as Oracle has never been committed to JBI) communities needs to connect to the wider Netbeans community, to join forces, as OpenESB to survive without Sun needs to keep the pace with newer Netbeans releases much better than what has been achieved so far.

Personally, as from the beginning of this year I'm fully employed with Alfresco Software, I will keep following the OpenESB evolution and experiment with Alfresco integration.

Good luck to all former colleagues involved with this project.

XML Schema and WSDL modules for Netbeans 6.9

In the latest Netbeans releases, for some reason I can't understand, they removed the XML and WSDL plugin from the list of default available. This plugin is one of the best tools you have in Netbeans, as it allows to create and modify XML files, XML Schemas and WSDL files easily and graphically. It is a reduced version of what you get with Altova's XML Spy.

Browsing the Internet I have found a Netbeans repository from which I can install this plugin for Netbeans 6.9 also, what I did is to add a new Plugin download URL:

http://dlc.sun.com.edgesuite.net/netbeans/updates/6.9/uc/m1/dev/catalog.xml.gz

Then I added the new plugin center:

From where I can install some development plugins:

To know what it's possible with this plugin, have a look at: http://xml.netbeans.org/

I'd like to now if the URL above is the right one or there are different places from where it is possible to download updated releases of this. Unless Oracle decides to kill it...

Alfresco 3.3.1 is available

Alfresco 3.3.1 extends the list of supported stacks, adding to the previous stack a list of specific additions:

• Tomcat 6.0.18
• JBoss 5.1.0,
• MySQL 5.1.39,
• Oracle 10g v10.2.0.4,
• Windows Server 2008 R2,
• RHEL 5.4
• Suse 11,
• Solaris 10,
• Windows Server 2003 SP2,
• Ubuntu Lucid,
• MS SQL Server 2008,
• DB2 9.7,
• Oracle 11g v11.2.0.1.0,
• PostgreSQL 8.4.1,
• Websphere 7 with IBM JDK6,
• Oracle WebLogic Server 11g Rel1 (10.3.2),
• JBoss 4.2.3.GA

This release includes performance and stability enhancements and many bug fixes.

For a list of functional features you can go here.

Alfresco launches Activiti BPMN 2.0 business process engine

Alfresco today announced the Activiti Business Process Management (BPM) open source project and the addition of leading BPM expert Tom Baeyens as Chief Architect, BPM. The Activiti project is a new Apache-licensed open source BPM platform designed from a blank slate to implement the new BPMN 2.0 standard from the Object Management Group (OMG) and to support new technology challenges such as interoperability and the Cloud. Tom Baeyens, founder and architect of the JBoss jBPM project, and fellow architect Joram Barrez, join Alfresco to create the first Apache-licensed BPMN 2.0 engine.

• Official Alfresco's press release
• Activiti BPM site
• Tom Baeyens' Blog
• Joram Barrez's Blog

CMIS is here, did you know?

My colleague Gabriele Columbro at Alfresco show detailed slides about CMIS and why it will be a revolution for the ECM market. CMIS is for content management what SQL has been for relational databases.

CMIS is here, did you know?

View more presentations from Gabriele Columbro.