OpenKM is a

document management system A document management system (DMS) is usually a computerized system used to store, share, track and manage files or documents. Some systems include history tracking where a log of the various versions created and modified by different users is r ...

that provides a web interface for managing nonspecific files. It has a Free/Libre Community Edition, and a proprietary Enterprise Edition. OpenKM includes a content repository,

Lucene Apache Lucene is a free and open-source search engine software library, originally written in Java by Doug Cutting. It is supported by the Apache Software Foundation and is released under the Apache Software License. Lucene is widely used as a ...

indexing, and

jBPM jBPM (Java Business Process Model) is an open-source workflow engine written in Java that can execute business processes described in BPMN 2.0 (or its own process definition language jPDL in earlier versions). jBPM is a toolkit for building bus ...

workflow. The OpenKM system was developed using open technology (

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). In 2005, two developers involved in open source technologies decided to start an open-source project based on high-level technologies to build a document management system that they chose to call OpenKM. At the project's outset, it received the help of Spanish government funds from the PROFIT PROJECT. At the end of 2006, the first OpenKM version was released. In 2011 and 2012, OpenKM began to expand its markets, translating the application to over 35 languages, allowing the Document Management System to be used worldwide by creating a network of partners. In 2017 OpenKM established subsidiaries in France, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, the

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region, and the USA. In 2018 OpenKM Poland in 2019 OpenKM Hungary, OpenKM Serbia, and OpenKM China, and in 2021 OpenKM Russia were incorporated into the OpenKM worldwide network of subsidiaries.

License

OpenKM uses the

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(Version 2) license.

Usage

OpenKM is a web-based document management application, so only a web browser is needed to use it. OpenKM implements a Web 2.0 user interface framework based on GWT (Google Web Toolkit) that supports

Firefox Mozilla Firefox, or simply Firefox, is a free and open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation. It uses the Gecko rendering engine to display web pages, which implements current and ...

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and

Google Chrome Google Chrome is a cross-platform web browser developed by Google. It was first released in 2008 for Microsoft Windows, built with free software components from Apple WebKit and Mozilla Firefox. Versions were later released for Linux, macOS ...

and the latest versions of

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. Also available, a user interface adapted for mobile devices based on JQuery Mobile, Add-ins for Microsoft Office, WebDAV and CIFS protocol for connecting OpenKM repository as a network drive and FTP protocol.

Architecture

OpenKM is developed using Java technology based on Java EE standards and the JBoss application server. Therefore, it can be installed and executed on various platforms (

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, etc.) The OpenKM architecture is based on the following technologies: *

Apache Tomcat Apache Tomcat (called "Tomcat" for short) is a free and open-source implementation of the Jakarta Servlet, Jakarta Expression Language, and WebSocket technologies. It provides a "pure Java" HTTP web server environment in which Java code can also ...

also might be deployed into others like

JBoss WildFly, formerly known as JBoss AS, or simply JBoss, is an application server written by JBoss, now developed by Red Hat. WildFly is written in Java and implements the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) specification. It runs on multip ...

Application Server *

EE (JDK 1.8 or higher) * GWT (Google Web Toolkit - Ajax) *

Spring Framework The Spring Framework is an application framework and inversion of control container for the Java platform. The framework's core features can be used by any Java application, but there are extensions for building web applications on top of the Java ...

* RESTFul *

Due to its architecture, OpenKM can work on any operating system —

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— though Linux is recommended by the developers. Data can be stored in a directory or in any RDBMS (

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MySQL MySQL () is an open-source relational database management system (RDBMS). Its name is a combination of "My", the name of co-founder Michael Widenius's daughter My, and "SQL", the acronym for Structured Query Language. A relational database o ...

, SQL Server, etc.)

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OpenKM Comparison of Versions

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