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Alfresco 3 Cookbook

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Alfresco 3 Cookbook

Overview of this book

Alfresco is the renowned and multiple award winning open source Enterprise content management system which allows you to build, design, and implement your very own ECM solutions.You have read a number of tutorials, blogs, and books on Alfresco. Now you're in the real world, trying to use Alfresco, but you’re running into problems with it. This is the book you want. Packed full of solutions that can be instantly applied, this cookbook with its practical based recipes and minimal explanation meets that demand.This Alfresco 3 cookbook boasts a comprehensive selection of recipes covering everything from the basics to the advanced. The book has recipes for quickly installing Alfresco in Windows and Linux and helping you use custom content model, rules, and search. There is also a collection of recipes focused on creating Scripts, Freemarker templates, Web Scripts, and new workflow definitions. Steps to integrate Alfresco with other systems like MS-Office are also included. You will be able to use Alfresco’s File and Email servers. Finally, step-by-step recipes are presented to create an Alfresco build environment and compile the source code. This Alfresco 3 Cookbook is perfect for developers looking to start working on Alfresco quickly, gain complete understanding, write custom implementations, and achieve expertise very easily.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Alfresco 3 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Introduction


This chapter will demonstrate how to install Alfresco, introduce Alfresco Explorer—the web client interface for managing the repository, and the applications that are bundled with Alfresco standard distribution.

Towards the end, you will understand how Alfresco stores and organizes the uploaded contents. We will also be acquainted with the default spaces that come with the Alfresco repository.

Today, Alfresco is the leading Open Source alternative to Enterprise Content Management—alternative to Microsoft SharePoint®, Documentum®, Open Text®, and so on. Alfresco is developed using best-of-breed Open Source technologies such as Spring, Hibernate, Lucene, modern standards such as JSR-168, JSR-170, Level 2 Web Services, Java Server Faces, and so on. Alfresco manages almost all types of content within an—enterprise documents, records, web pages, images, XML documents, or any other files.

Some of the most important capabilities and features of Alfresco are:

  • Document management

  • Web content management

  • Record management

  • Image management

  • Workflow

  • Search

  • Multilingual support

  • Multiplatform support

  • Clustered and Federated servers

  • Cloud-eady

  • Web 2.0 collaboration

  • Browser-based UI and desktop integration

  • JSR, SOAP, REST interfaces

  • Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS)

  • CIFS, SMB, WebDAV, FTP, and IMAP access channels

  • MS Office® Integration using MS SharePoint Protocol®