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Alfresco Developer Guide

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Alfresco Developer Guide

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Alfresco Developer Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Summary


This chapter was about customizing Alfresco's content model, configuring the web client to allow end users to work with the custom content model via the web client, and using the Web Services API and JavaScript API to create, search, update, and delete objects in the repository. Specifically, you learned:

  • The Alfresco repository is a hierarchical collection of stores and nodes.

  • The Alfresco content model defines the data types of nodes and properties, and the relationships between nodes.

  • Extending the content model to make it relevant to your business problem involves creating an XML file to describe the model, then telling Alfresco about it through a Spring bean configuration file.

  • The fundamental building blocks used to define the content model include: Types, Aspects, Properties, and Associations.

  • Best practices for creating your own content models include using aspects as much as possible, considering the use of a root content type, and leveraging the out of the box content model...