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Alfresco 3 Cookbook

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Alfresco 3 Cookbook

Overview of this book

Alfresco is the renowned and multiple award winning open source Enterprise content management system which allows you to build, design, and implement your very own ECM solutions.You have read a number of tutorials, blogs, and books on Alfresco. Now you're in the real world, trying to use Alfresco, but you’re running into problems with it. This is the book you want. Packed full of solutions that can be instantly applied, this cookbook with its practical based recipes and minimal explanation meets that demand.This Alfresco 3 cookbook boasts a comprehensive selection of recipes covering everything from the basics to the advanced. The book has recipes for quickly installing Alfresco in Windows and Linux and helping you use custom content model, rules, and search. There is also a collection of recipes focused on creating Scripts, Freemarker templates, Web Scripts, and new workflow definitions. Steps to integrate Alfresco with other systems like MS-Office are also included. You will be able to use Alfresco’s File and Email servers. Finally, step-by-step recipes are presented to create an Alfresco build environment and compile the source code. This Alfresco 3 Cookbook is perfect for developers looking to start working on Alfresco quickly, gain complete understanding, write custom implementations, and achieve expertise very easily.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Alfresco 3 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Introduction


Alfresco, as you know, is an Open Source Enterprise Content Management system, distributed under GPL (GNU General Public License) license.

Note

To know more on GPL model, read on http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html

The community version of Alfresco's source code is freely available to download and it allows you to configure your environment, change and build the code, include enhancements, and finally contribute back to the community so that the Alfresco source code gets bigger, richer, and more enduring.

The Alfresco community source code uses Subversion as the source code control system. You need to download the source code from the Alfresco subversion server. Then build and deploy in your own application server (Tomcat, JBoss, Geronimo, and so on).

In this chapter, we will explore how to set up the Alfresco development environment, configuring your system with all the dependencies installed, compiling and building Alfresco's source code and finally deploying the Alfresco...