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Alfresco 4 Enterprise Content Management Implementation

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Alfresco 4 Enterprise Content Management Implementation

Overview of this book

Alfresco 4 has improved a lot with its new and advanced concepts for content management. Users have been waiting for a book that covers these concepts along with security, dashboards, and the configuration features of Alfresco 4. Alfresco 4 Enterprise Content Management Implementation is a well-crafted and easy-to-use book, and it is a complete guide to implementing enterprise content management for your business needs using Alfresco 4. It covers the enhanced document management, integration with standard productivity tools, and various integration options with proven external applications. This book will take you through a number of clear, practical sections that will help you to make a proper decision for your business needs using standard practices with Alfresco's Document Management and various third-party integrations You will learn how to install, administer, and manage your entire application. The concepts of mapping your business documents by extending content models and achieving your complex business process using Workflow models and business rules will be discussed in this book. Integration with various third party tools like MS Office, Mobile Application, Outlook, Liferay, Ephesoft, and Kofax will also be covered. You will learn to create your own custom workflow using Activiti BPMN 2.0 Process Designer and also maintain and administrate the entire application.This book explains everything you need to know to manage your documents using standard processes and mechanisms.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Alfresco 4 Enterprise Content Management Implementation
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Web Scripts


Web scripts are basically RESTful web services. Alfresco provides REST architecture based framework for web scripts.

You can achieve model-view-controller (MVC) pattern using Web Script to create your own application or API. You can create application which gets render using template language like FreeMarker. It may use Java or JavaScript based Web Script controller to access Alfresco repository and create data model to use it on front-end for generating user interface.

In this section we will talk about Web Script, implementation of Web Script, some Out-of-the box Web Script examples and some custom Web Script examples.

Understanding Web Scripts

A REST Web Script is simply a service bound to a URI and based on HTTP, so the technology that the external application is implemented in is irrelevant. This means that they are cross-platform and cross-language. You are not restricted to any programming language or development environment.

The Web Script framework lets you roll your own...