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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

Obtaining Alfresco WCM


You must obtain and install an additional download to enable Alfresco WCM functionality. The download includes a new Spring bean configuration file, a standalone Tomcat instance pre-configured with JARs, and server settings that allow a separate Tomcat instance (which is called "the virtualization server") to run web applications stored in Alfresco WCM web folders. This capability is used when content managers "preview" an asset or a web site.

Just as in the core Alfresco server, you can either build the WCM distribution from source or obtain a binary distribution.

Step-by-Step: Installing Alfresco WCM

If you are building from source, the source code for Alfresco WCM is included with the source code for the rest of the product. If you don't know where to get the source code, see Chapter 2. Once the source code is checked out, all you have to do is run the "distribute" Ant task as follows:

ant -f continuous.xml distribute

After several minutes, the WCM distribution will...