IBM® Content Management Interoperability Services for FileNet® Content Manager (IBM CMIS) is a web application that enables client applications that use the OASIS CMIS standard to work with content that is stored on IBM FileNet Content Engine.
Deploy your IBM CMIS for FileNet Content Manager server and Content Engine server as close as possible with respect to network latency because of the amount of traffic between the two. For example, installing and deploying the IBM CMIS for FileNet Content Manager web application to a separate application server profile on the same web container physical machine with Content Engine will remove network traffic between Content Engine and IBM CMIS for FileNet Content Manager server from your network and increase performance for IBM CMIS for FileNet Content Manager clients.
IBM CMIS for FileNet Content Manager communicates with Content Engine by using the Content Engine Client Java™ API.
IBM CMIS for FileNet Content Manager and other CMIS-enabled enterprise content management systems communicate with client applications by using REST and Web Services bindings.