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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

Running Alfresco on your machine


Until now, we have compiled, built, and deployed Alfresco in a Tomcat server. In this recipe, we will configure the rest of the necessary settings and run Alfresco.

At the end of this recipe, you will have Alfresco running in your machine compiled, built, deployed, and executed entirely by yourself; and in your own stack.

How to do it...

There are a few settings and steps left to make sure Alfresco is running properly in the compiled stack you have just built.

  1. 1. The build script has created the E:\Alfresco Tomcat\apache-tomcat-6.0.18\shared\classes\ folder for you. Here you can add your alfresco-global.properties file where you can add your custom settings.

  2. 2. Create a new file in this folder named alfresco-global.properties, and add the following contents into it:

    ###############################
    ## Common Alfresco Properties #
    ###############################
    #
    # Sample custom content and index data location
    #-------------
    dir.root=./alf_data
    #
    # Sample database...