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Alfresco 4 Enterprise Content Management Implementation

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Alfresco 4 Enterprise Content Management Implementation

Overview of this book

Alfresco 4 has improved a lot with its new and advanced concepts for content management. Users have been waiting for a book that covers these concepts along with security, dashboards, and the configuration features of Alfresco 4. Alfresco 4 Enterprise Content Management Implementation is a well-crafted and easy-to-use book, and it is a complete guide to implementing enterprise content management for your business needs using Alfresco 4. It covers the enhanced document management, integration with standard productivity tools, and various integration options with proven external applications. This book will take you through a number of clear, practical sections that will help you to make a proper decision for your business needs using standard practices with Alfresco's Document Management and various third-party integrations You will learn how to install, administer, and manage your entire application. The concepts of mapping your business documents by extending content models and achieving your complex business process using Workflow models and business rules will be discussed in this book. Integration with various third party tools like MS Office, Mobile Application, Outlook, Liferay, Ephesoft, and Kofax will also be covered. You will learn to create your own custom workflow using Activiti BPMN 2.0 Process Designer and also maintain and administrate the entire application.This book explains everything you need to know to manage your documents using standard processes and mechanisms.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Alfresco 4 Enterprise Content Management Implementation
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Customizing JSP Client


You can develop a custom user interface using JSPs and Alfresco Foundation APIs. The following is a list of some of the Foundation APIs:

  • NodeService

  • SearchService

  • DictionaryService

  • ContentService

  • FileFolderService

Suppose there is an existing portal for a travel agency named Fun Travels Ltd. This portal is developed on another platform. The agency has various galleries, articles, guidelines, forms, and so on. They want to store as well as fetch all this content from the Alfresco repository.

To implement this, you have to customize the user interface of this portal such that when you click on any of their existing links such as Galleries, Articles, Guidelines, and so on, the screen should appear to input some valuable data. On the basis of this information, you have to fetch/add content from/into the Alfresco repository.

Note that a form can be designed with standard JSP tags, HTML tags, or some other standard UI frameworks. In this chapter, we are covering it using...