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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

Using the Solr search engine with Alfresco


Solr is a widely used open source search server provided by apache. It uses Lucene as its search engine, but addition to that it provides full enterprise search server capabilities. Solr provides a web based application that accepts http request and returns http response.

Here are some advantages of Solr:

  • Advanced full-text search capabilities

  • Provides faceted search

  • Performance optimized for high volume web traffic

  • Single server for indexes of multiple applications

  • For clustered Alfresco servers, indexes can be maintained at a single Solr server

  • Solr is highly scalable, provides clustering of Solr server.

  • Web-based Solr administration interface

  • Solr supports Lucene-style queries, so no need to change the queries

  • Path queries are significantly improved in Solr

Solr Core is a very important term in Solr. Single Solr instances can have multiple Cores. Each core contains indexes and related configuration files, schema for that index. The advantage we get with...