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Alfresco 3 Web Content Management

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Alfresco 3 Web Content Management

Overview of this book

Alfresco provides a robust, easy to use, and scalable web content framework for managing multiple websites leveraging a common web infrastructure. If you are interested in configuring and building a new website quickly, determined to create a scalable infrastructure to stage multiple websites, and want to secure and control the content being pushed to external applications, then you have reached the right place.This book will guide you through creating, managing and publishing web content in staging, test and production environments. It will help you set up an infrastructure for supporting multiple websites using Alfresco, enabling a shortened web development cycle, and providing high return on investment and low cost of ownership.This book will take you from the basics of publishing style CMS – such as web forms, page templates, and staging – to the skills that will make you an Alfresco developer, covering advanced topics such as workflow, web services integration, and more. You will learn the various options used to install Alfresco including File System Deployment receivers on target production servers. You will also learn to configure a single instance of Alfresco to serve multiple web projects. Focus is given to reuse assets such as images, forms, and workflows across multiple web projects.It will introduce you to advanced concepts of separating the web content from presentation. The entire process of creating web content, getting it approved and published to a staging environment needs a robust workflow process. You will learn and have extensive hands-on experience with the examples given in the book to create a flexible workflow. You will learn about Alfresco Web Editor, a new feature released with the latest version of Alfresco 3.3. You will learn to configure Web Editor for in-context editing of web pages. You will be able to try out various integration options using Alfresco’s RESTful web services framework. By the end of the book, you will be able to set up an extensible enterprise web content management system for your company and customers.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Alfresco 3 Web Content Management
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
Preface

What's new in Alfresco 3 web scripts


Alfresco has introduced web scripts framework in older versions such as 2.1. With new releases of Alfresco, efforts are being made to enhance the capabilities of web scripts. Following are some of the enhancements for web scripts available from Alfresco 3 onwards:

  • Standalone component

    With this new Alfresco version 3, the web script architecture is refactored in such a way that you need not use the Alfresco repository server to host, but you can host it in any environment and even in tiers. This will allow web scripts to be used in a presentation layer to render UI. For example, the Alfresco Surf platform hosts the web script framework for reusable UI components.

  • URI templates comply with JSR-311 (JAX-RS)

    A URI template is simply a URI containing tokens that may be substituted with actual values. From Alfresco 3.0, this template syntax complies with the template syntax of JSR-311 (JAX-RS).

  • Run as user

    You can use the runas attribute with authentication...