Making external repositories work like document libraries in SharePoint Server 2007 (and a cool example using the CMIS spec)

Fellow Ted Pattison Group instructor & SharePoint MVP Scot Hillier just had an article posted on MSDN. It’s the first sample I’ve seen that leverages the CMIS specification announced by Ryan on the SharePoint Team Blog a few months back which essentially is an ECM interop spec so various apps can talk to each other more easily.

His paper shows how to implement a document library in SharePoint but using a external repository that conforms to the CMIS spec. This isn’t some thrown together sample… you’re looking at a collection of Web Parts, a slick Silverlight UI, custom WCF service, custom protocol handler… you name it. Here’s a diagram of the architecture:

Scot has also uploaded the entire project that he discusses in the MSDN article to MSDN Code Gallery for you to download a kick the tires on… awesome resource!

» Scot Hillier: Integrating External Document Repositories with SharePoint Server 2007
» MSDN: Integrating External Document Repositories with SharePoint Server 2007
» MSDN Code Gallery: Integrating External Content Repository with SharePoint Server 2007

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posted on Wednesday, February 04, 2009 6:39 AM

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# re: Making external repositories work like document libraries in SharePoint Server 2007 (and a cool example using the CMIS spec) 2/4/2009 5:27 PM Ram

This is cool stuff, we actually did very similar to this using Business Data Catalog wired up to wcf web services that exposes read/write to external repository

# re: Making external repositories work like document libraries in SharePoint Server 2007 (and a cool example using the CMIS spec) 2/5/2009 1:33 AM Dan Usher

AC - thanks for the links for this, definitely a great find. I'm definitely interested with this for a few client projects that utilize different vendor software for their different repositories that want SharePoint to be the presentation layer for all of them.

Great read :)

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