Creating a session

These examples show the first steps that are required in client applications: How to create a session and connect to a repository.

A complete list of all session parameters can be found here.

AtomPub binding

// default factory implementation
SessionFactory factory = SessionFactoryImpl.newInstance();
Map<String, String> parameter = new HashMap<String, String>();

// user credentials
parameter.put(SessionParameter.USER, "Otto");
parameter.put(SessionParameter.PASSWORD, "****");

// connection settings
parameter.put(SessionParameter.ATOMPUB_URL, "http://<host>:<port>/cmis/atom");
parameter.put(SessionParameter.BINDING_TYPE, BindingType.ATOMPUB.value());
parameter.put(SessionParameter.REPOSITORY_ID, "myRepository");

// create session
Session session = factory.createSession(parameter);

Web Services binding

// default factory implementation
SessionFactory factory = SessionFactoryImpl.newInstance();
Map<String, String> parameter = new HashMap<String, String>();

// user credentials
parameter.put(SessionParameter.USER, "Otto");
parameter.put(SessionParameter.PASSWORD, "****");

// connection settings
parameter.put(SessionParameter.BINDING_TYPE, BindingType.WEBSERVICES.value());
parameter.put(SessionParameter.WEBSERVICES_ACL_SERVICE, "http://<host>:<port>/cmis/services/ACLService?wsdl");
parameter.put(SessionParameter.WEBSERVICES_DISCOVERY_SERVICE, "http://<host>:<port>/cmis/services/DiscoveryService?wsdl");
parameter.put(SessionParameter.WEBSERVICES_MULTIFILING_SERVICE, "http://<host>:<port>/cmis/services/MultiFilingService?wsdl");
parameter.put(SessionParameter.WEBSERVICES_NAVIGATION_SERVICE, "http://<host>:<port>/cmis/services/NavigationService?wsdl");
parameter.put(SessionParameter.WEBSERVICES_OBJECT_SERVICE, "http://<host>:<port>/cmis/services/ObjectService?wsdl");
parameter.put(SessionParameter.WEBSERVICES_POLICY_SERVICE, "http://<host>:<port>/cmis/services/PolicyService?wsdl");
parameter.put(SessionParameter.WEBSERVICES_RELATIONSHIP_SERVICE, "http://<host>:<port>/cmis/services/RelationshipService?wsdl");
parameter.put(SessionParameter.WEBSERVICES_REPOSITORY_SERVICE, "http://<host>:<port>/cmis/services/RepositoryService?wsdl");
parameter.put(SessionParameter.WEBSERVICES_VERSIONING_SERVICE, "http://<host>:<port>/cmis/services/VersioningService?wsdl");
parameter.put(SessionParameter.REPOSITORY_ID, "myRepository");

// create session
Session session = factory.createSession(parameter);

Local binding

The local binding is specific to OpenCMIS. It lets an OpenCMIS client connect to an OpenCMIS server in the same JVM.

// default factory implementation
SessionFactory factory = SessionFactoryImpl.newInstance();
Map<String, String> parameter = new HashMap<String, String>();

// user credentials
parameter.put(SessionParameter.USER, "Otto");
parameter.put(SessionParameter.PASSWORD, "****");

// connection settings
parameter.put(SessionParameter.BINDING_TYPE, BindingType.LOCAL.value());
parameter.put(SessionParameter.LOCAL_FACTORY, "my.local.factory");
parameter.put(SessionParameter.REPOSITORY_ID, "myRepository");

// create session
Session session = factory.createSession(parameter);