In this screencast, Jeff Potts shows the current state of Drupal-Alfresco integration via CMIS, the Content Management Interoperability Services standard.

Using the CMIS and CMIS Alfresco modules Optaros recently contributed (based on joint development effort between Optaros, Acquia, and Alfresco), he demonstrates:

• HTML content created in Alfresco being “pushed” to Drupal and converted to a standard Drupal node, where it can be affected by any of the existing Drupal modules like 5-star rating or comments.
• Content created in Drupal being “pushed” back to Alfresco, where it could trigger a workflow, archiving, or any other Alfresco action
• The ability to browse and query, from within the Drupal interface, CMIS repositories, including standard keyword search as well as CMIS queries.

Although this demo is specific to Alfresco and Drupal, the CMIS module itself is designed to facilitate integration of other repositories as they become CMIS compliant.

(You should also check out Jeff’s post on CMIS, ECM Interoperability, and Services-Oriented Content Management for a sense of how we see this particular set of modules fitting into a larger strategic approach).