Day 1 started with some informal introductions, and setup of the existing servers. We now have OpenText, Alfresco and Jackrabbit+Chemistry servers up and running, and are running interoperability tests against those using a variety of clients, including OpenText that has a C++ plugin that connects Windows Explorer and as well as Office tools to CMIS back ends, SAP, Alfresco test units, two Flex-based clients (CMIS Explorer and CMIS Spaces), a Apache Chemistry CMIS Javascript client written by David Nuescheler at Day, an Apache Chemistry Java client that Florent Guillaume (Nuxeo software) is working hard on to commit hopefully before the end of the week.

It's really great to see so much effort going into interoperability tests. The most interesting thing about CMIS is the momentum behind it, more than the technology, that will probably still evolve over the year. It is also very important to get the first version of the specification out as early as possible, because so many specifications fall into tech-limbo, to never be completed (802.11n, etc...).

Apache Chemistry is also looking better than ever, having just been accepted into the incubator at Apache, and the code will probably be committed over the week-end. From then on hopefully the community will be able to have a look at it. This will also help interoperability, as even major vendors could use this code base to ensure compatibility.