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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

About the Authors

Munwar Shariff is the CTO and EVP of EMEA at CIGNEX. CIGNEX is the leading provider of open source Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions for businesses and government agencies.

He has served as the chief architect and manager of engineering teams for 19 years in the areas of business application software, Internet applications, social media, and mobile applications for customers worldwide. He is an expert in Content Management Systems (CMS). Since co-founding CIGNEX in late 2000, he has successfully delivered more than 130 CMS applications using various open source technologies. He has written a number of articles on open source CMS, is an experienced trainer, and a frequent speaker at conferences related to this topic.

Munwar earned his M.S. in Digital Electronics and Advanced Communications from National Institute of Technology, Surathkal, India. He has authored three technical books on open source CMS: Alfresco 3 Enterprise Content Management, Implementing Alfresco, and Plonelive.

Amita Bhandari is a Senior Consultant at CIGNEX. She has extensive experience in implementing Enterprise Web Applications using J2EE technologies. For the past four years, at CIGNEX, she has rolled out numerous Alfresco deployments worldwide in the areas of Document and Web Content Management. She has worked on performance tuning projects where Alfresco was deployed in clustered and load balanced environments. She has also implemented Single Sign On for easy communication between two systems.

She has worked with clients in media, gaming, healthcare, and e-governance. She has trained many students in advanced Java technologies.

She holds a Masters in Computer Applications from Rajasthan University, India. She has co-authored a book titled Alfresco 3 Enterprise Content Management and has also worked as a Technical Reviewer for the book titled Alfresco 3 Web Services.

Pallika Majmudar is a Senior Consultant at CIGNEX Technologies. She has strong hands-on experience in Java-based technologies, such as J2EE, Object-oriented Architecture and Design Patterns, Frameworks, web services, and web scripts.

She has architected and led many content management projects for customers in the USA, Hong Kong, Singapore, and India. She has implemented Alfresco-based solutions for clients across verticals like media, healthcare, hi-tech, and communications.

Pallika has earned a Masters degree in Computer Applications from Gujarat University, India. She has co-authored a book titled Alfresco 3 Enterprise Content Management.

Vinita Choudhary is a senior consultant at CIGNEX. She has extensive experience working in a variety of environments with cross-functional, multicultural teams.

She has reorganized existing repositories of documentation; written guidelines for document creation, filing, and change control; and written reference material for software developers and published it. She is involved in providing pre-sales support to the sales team and has worked on process streamlining for the company and various documentation aspects.

Vinita holds a Masters degree in Computer Applications from Gujarat University, India. She has co-authored a book titled Alfresco 3 Enterprise Content Management.