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Alfresco 3 Enterprise Content Management Implementation

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Alfresco 3 Enterprise Content Management Implementation

Overview of this book

Alfresco 3.0 has generated a lot of curiosity with its new content management features. Users have been waiting for a book that covers these concepts along with the security, dashboards, and configuration features of Alfresco 3. Alfresco 3 includes Alfresco Surf, a new N-Tier Architecture, which delivers scalability and accommodates more users on existing hardware resources. This new release also includes a draft implementation of the CMIS specification, and Microsoft Office SharePoint Protocol support. The new multi-tenancy features enable Alfresco ECM to be configured as a single-instance multi-tenant environment. This well-crafted and easy-to-use book is a complete guide to implementing enterprise content management in your business using Alfresco 3. It covers the enhanced document management, a new web-based collaborative application called Alfresco Share, and various integration options with external applications. Alfresco 3 offers true Enterprise Content Management (ECM) by providing an open source alternative to Microsoft SharePoint, Documentum, and Interwoven. It is the most popular Java-based CMS with over 1.5 million downloads, 50,000 live sites, 74,000 community members, and with more than 150 application extensions in forge. This book guides you through creating smart, collaborative content repositories and shows how to use Alfresco 3 to create more elegant document sharing, better collaborative working, and reliable automated workflow processes. The book also explains how administrators can set up Alfresco 3 for multiple business units as a single-instance multi-tenant environment. Business users can leverage Alfresco Share, a new built-in web-based collaborative content management application bundled with Alfresco repository. It simplifies capturing, sharing, and retrieval of information across virtual teams. This book shows you how to unleash the power of Alfresco 3 to create collaborative working systems in your enterprise
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Alfresco 3 Enterprise Content Management Implementation
Credits
About the Author
About the Co-Authors
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Introduction to Alfresco Explorer


The Alfresco Enterprise Content Management product is bundled and shipped along with two web-based applications. One is called the Alfresco Explorer, which was formerly known as the "Web Client". In this chapter, we will go through a high-level overview of Alfresco Explorer. The other web-based application is called Alfresco Share, which enables collaboration. Chapter 10 of this book has a detailed description of Alfresco Share.

By using any web browser, you can connect to the Alfresco Explorer application. Using Alfresco Explorer, you will be able to manage users, security, content, business rules, and everything related to your enterprise content stored in Alfresco.

Note

In rest of this book, wherever the web-client configuration files are referred to, consider them as Alfresco Explorer related configuration files.

Log in to Alfresco as an Administrator

To begin, if Alfresco is installed by using the Tomcat bundle, then we can access the Alfresco Explorer...