Apache Chemistry Graduates from Apache Incubator as a Top-Level Project

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), an all-volunteer foundation that oversees nearly 150 Open Source (News - Alert) projects, including Apache HTTP Server, announced that Apache Chemistry has graduated from the Apache Incubator as a Top-Level Project (TLP).

The Incubator project is the entry path into The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) for projects and codebases wishing to become part of the foundation's efforts. Codes submitted by third party and external organizations wishing to be a part of the foundation enter through the Incubator.

Apache Chemistry is an Open Source implementation of the OASIS Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) standard in Java, Python and PHP. The CMIS standard defines a domain model and Web Services and Restful AtomPub bindings that can be used by applications to work with one or more Content Management repositories/systems.

The Apache Chemistry project consisted of the following sub-projects: OpenCMIS - CMIS client and server libraries for Java; cmislib - CMIS client library for Python; phpclient - CMIS client library for PHP, and DotCMIS - CMIS client library for .NET (News - Alert).

The project is supposed to offer an interoperable API to CMIS repositories such as Alfresco, EMC Documentum, IBM FileNet, Microsoft SharePoint, Nuxeo, OpenText Enterprise Library Services and other CMIS-compliant content repositories.

Officials associated with Apache Chemistry commented that the project is successfully driving adoption of the CMIS standard. An Apache Open Source implementation of CMIS is ideal for growing a developer community around the standard, which will improve interoperability, create new tools, and foster innovation.

Beneficiaries of the project have acknowledged that CMIS works well. Through Chemistry, many software platforms, such as Java, Python, PHP, and .NET, will be able to adopt the CMIS specification, which benefits both servers storing content documents or other assets, and the applications interacting with them.

Alfresco, one of the CMIS repositories asserted that as a supporter for open source and open standards, it is pleased to have contributed resources to the Apache Chemistry project and to see it pass through the incubation phase. The Apache Chemistry project will drive wider adoption of CMIS and allow developers to build new social content management applications leveraging the Alfresco open source platform.

All Apache products are released under the Apache Software License v2.0, and are overseen by a self-selected team of active contributors to the project. Since the Apache Chemistry has graduated from the Incubator, it will now be guided by a Project Management Committee (PMC) in its day-to-day operations, including community development and product releases.