[Openefm-development] CCMS: California Case Management System

[Jim B. <be...@co...>]

As you might be aware, California is having a state wide case 
management system developed.  The project is dubbed CCMS.  CCMS is 
being developed as a Java based web application.  CCMS is not planned 
to be in use until 2009.   After speaking with persons involved in the 
development of this project I have come to a sort of understanding as 
to their approach towards an integrated EFM.

California is wisely basing all communication protocols on the 2GEFS 
specification that they developed.  As such, courts using the CCMS will 
be able to receive 2GEFS compliant filings.  The company developing the 
CCMS will be incorporating an EFM and a clerk review module.  They view 
these as different components.  The EFM will be a simple validation 
based acceptance / rejection module.  It will be implemented as a Java 
web application, intended to be hosted under Jakarta-tomcat on a 
Solaris system.  The EFM will validate incoming filings against the 
2GEFS schemas and provide a synchronous received or rejected message to 
the EFSP.  The filing will then be handed off to the CCMS.  The clerk 
review of the filing will happen from the CCMS interface.

There are a few things to take from this, first, our EFM does all that 
they require.  It might have to be tweaked a bit to meet their needs, 
but if they wanted to use OpenEFM a lot of their work would already be 
done.  This leaves me feeling encouraged.  Even though the CCMS 
developers may not have used OpenEFM ( yet? ) it still demonstrates 
that our design and approach are sound.

Jim Beard
counterclaim.com, Inc
http://www.counterclaim.com
http://openefm.sourceforge.net
(800) 264-8145