Today, after a year of hard work, we are proud to announce the release of our Joomla 1.5 integration for Alfresco. In case you don't know Alfresco, it's an open source enterprise content management system solution written in Java.
There are hundreds of thousands of Alfresco users worldwide and millions of Joomla sites. Alfresco and Joomlatools both believe that it is important to collaborate on building open source solutions that work together. So we teamed up, and here's the result: you can now use your Joomla site as a front-end for Alfresco document repository!
What can it do ?
Our integration enables you to access the powerful back-end content repository services of Alfresco, directly from your Joomla site. The integration allows you to manage, preview and track content and digital assets on collaborative Joomla web sites, using Alfresco’s content library. Similarly Alfresco users will be able to search, publish, share, download, and edit content directly on Joomla sites.
How does it work ?
This integration uses the new CMIS standard. It's an Atom-based software interoperability protocol, that was created by EMC, IBM, Microsoft, Alfresco, Open Text, Oracle, and SAP. It was developed especially for this purpose: connecting different CMS systems, using a single protocol. CMIS is brand new, so here at Joomlatools we are very excited to be among the first to ever implement it.
Seeing is believing: you can try it for yourself on the demo site, or you can download it at Joomlatools Labs. We opened a new forum to hear your thoughts.
