Most full-fledged integration or ESB suite/platforms provide document/content management connectors, either directly (documentum, filenet, alfresco) historically, or through the new CMIS standard.

Recommend add tooling support into Switchyard to have it be as competitive in this domain (ECM/EDMS) as similar products by utilizing existing camel support.

http://code.google.com/p/camel-cmis/

Usecase: Store a text file or binary content (such as the file or payload from a service (file-pickup for simple example)) into an ECM/EDMS storage location potentially with custom metadata about the content/payload/file via a Reference with CMIS binding. (common usecase)

Usecase2: Pull a file from an ECM/EDMS as a service with CMIS binding. (less common, but happens)

potential synergy/testing with Jboss Modeshape3 project, or Alfresco is commonly used as well.