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Alfresco Developer Guide

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Alfresco Developer Guide
Oct, 2008 | 556 pages
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Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Alfresco Developer Guide
Alfresco Developer Guide
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
Preface
Preface
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1
The Alfresco Platform
The Alfresco Platform
Alfresco in the Real World
Example Used throughout This Book
Alfresco Architecture
Customizing Alfresco
Dusting Off Your Toolbox
Understanding Alfresco's Editions
Summary
2
Getting Started with Alfresco
Getting Started with Alfresco
Obtaining the SDK
Setting up the SDK in Eclipse
Extending Alfresco
Packaging and Deploying Customizations
Troubleshooting
Starting Over
Summary
3
Working with Content Models
Working with Content Models
Defining SomeCo's Content Model
Step-by-Step: Relating Types with Associations
Step-by-Step: Adding Aspects to the Content Model
Step-by-Step: Finishing up the Model
Modeling Summary
Modeling Best Practices
Configuring the UI
Working with Content Programmatically
Summary
4
Handling Content Automatically with Actions, Behaviors, Transformers, and Extractors
Handling Content Automatically with Actions, Behaviors, Transformers, and Extractors
Encapsulating Content Operations in Actions
Binding Logic to Custom Types with Behaviors
Extracting Metadata from Files
Transforming Content from One Format to Another
Summary
5
Customizing the Web Client User Interface
Customizing the Web Client User Interface
Knowing When to Customize Alfresco's Web Client and When to Write Your Own
Adding New Menu Items with UI Actions
Writing Action Evaluators to Show/Hide UI Actions
Changing How the Web Client Renders Data with Custom Component Renderers
Creating Custom Dialogs
Creating Custom Wizards
Customizing Web Client JSP Pages
Summary
6
Exposing Content through a RESTful API with Web Scripts
Exposing Content through a RESTful API with Web Scripts
Introducing the Web Script Framework
Planning the SomeCo Whitepapers and Ratings API
Retrieving Data with Web Scripts
Writing Java-Backed Web Scripts
Wiring a Web Script to UI Widgets
Handling Form Data
Customizing the Web Client with Web Scripts
Advanced Web Scripts
Summary
7
Advanced Workflow
Advanced Workflow
What is a Workflow?
Creating Process Definitions
Using the jBPM Graphical Process Designer
Wiring a Process to the Alfresco UI
Assigning Tasks to Users and Groups
Adding Logic to Workflows with Actions and Process Variables
Using the Workflow API
Using Timers
Debugging Workflows
Comparing Alfresco Workflow Options
Summary
8
Web Content Management
Web Content Management
Understanding the Difference between Alfresco DM and Alfresco WCM
Obtaining Alfresco WCM
Creating Web Projects
Creating Web Forms
Deploying Content
Performing Post-Deployment Processing
Modifying and Creating WCM Workflows
Working with the AVM API
Using the AVM Console
Summary
9
Security
Security
Authenticating and Synchronizing with LDAP
Setting Up Single Sign-On (SSO)
Working with Security Services
Summary
API Reference and Examples
API Reference and Examples
Foundation API Public Services
Lucene Queries
JavaScript
API Examples
Alfresco Configuration Reference
Alfresco Configuration Reference
Actions
Web Client Config Elements
Action Groups
Metadata Extractors
Transformers
Graphical View of the Alfresco Content Model
Index
Index

Obtaining the SDK

If you are running the Enterprise network, it is likely that the SDK has been provided to you as a binary. Alternatively, you can check out the Enterprise source code and build it yourself. In the Enterprise SVN repository, specific releases are tagged. So if you wanted 2.2.0, for example, you'd check out V2.2.0-ENTERPRISE-FINAL. The Enterprise SVN repository for the Enterprise network is password-protected. Consult your Alfresco representative for the URL, port, and credentials that are needed to obtain the Enterprise source code.

Labs network users can either download the SDK as a binary from SourceForge (https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=143373&package_id=189441) or check out the Labs source code and build it. The SVN URL for the Labs source code is svn://svn.alfresco.com. In the Labs repository, nothing is tagged. You must check out HEAD.

Step-by-Step: Building Alfresco from Source

Regardless of whether you are using Enterprise or Labs, if you...

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