Jay Brown

A software developer for over 25 years, Jay has been building ECM products for IBM and FileNet since 1999. These include the design and construction of the Java and .NET APIs for FileNet Content Manager.

Jay started working with CMIS in 2008 when he joined the OASIS TC (Technical Committee) and designed IBM’s first CMIS implementation for FileNet, followed by a list of other ECM CMIS projects. He was one of the original contributors for CMIS 1.0 in addition to having authored several of the new CMIS 1.1 specification features.

As the CMIS Evangelist for IBM, he works with other development projects inside and outside of the company, helping teams implement the standard while ensuring interoperability with the ever-growing CMIS ecosystem.

Jay lives in Los Angeles, California, with his wife Cindy.

books by Jay Brown

CMIS and Apache Chemistry in Action

  • July 2013
  • ISBN 9781617291159
  • 480 pages
  • printed in black & white

CMIS and Apache Chemistry in Action is a comprehensive guide to the CMIS standard and related ECM concepts. In it, you'll find clear teaching and instantly useful examples for building content-centric client and server-side applications that run against any CMIS-compliant repository. In fact, using the CMIS Workbench and the InMemory Repository from Apache Chemistry, you'll have running code talking to a real CMIS server by the end of chapter 1.