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Alfresco One 5.x Developer's Guide - Second Edition

By : Benjamin Chevallereau, Jeff Potts
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Alfresco One 5.x Developer's Guide - Second Edition

By: Benjamin Chevallereau, Jeff Potts

Overview of this book

Do you want to create more reliable and secure solutions for enterprise apps? Alfresco One 5.x is your gateway to developing the best industry-standard enterprise apps and this book will help you to become a pro with Alfresco One 5.x development. This book will help you create a complete fully featured app for your organization and while you create that perfect app, you will explore and implement the new and intriguing features of Alfresco. The book starts with an introduction to the Alfresco platform and you’ll see how to configure and customize it. You will learn how to work with the content in a content management system and how you can extend it to your own use case. Next, you will find out how to work with Alfresco Share, an all-purpose user interface for general document management, and customize it. Moving on, you write web scripts that create, read, and delete data in the back-end repository. Further on from that, you’ll work with a set of tools that Alfresco provides; to generate a basic AnglularJS application supporting use cases, to name a few authentication, document list, document view. Finally, you’ll learn how to develop your own Alfresco Mobile app and understand how Smart Folders and Search manager work. By the end of the book, you’ll know how to configure Alfresco to authenticate against LDAP, be able to set up Single Sign-On (SSO), and work with Alfresco’s security services.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Alfresco One 5.x Developer’s Guide - Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Summary


When you started out the chapter, you had an Alfresco server that only knew about the users stored in its repository. By now, your server is not only authenticating against an external LDAP directory, but can also share a session with other web applications through the magic of Single Sign-On (SSO).

You saw some sample code for working with three of Alfresco's security services classes (AuthenticationService, AuthorityService, and PersonService) and also learned where Alfresco keeps its permission definitions (and how to extend them).

Specifically, you learned how to:

  • Install a basic OpenLDAP implementation

  • Configure Alfresco to authenticate against LDAP, including "chaining" LDAP with Alfresco authentication

  • Configure LDAP synchronization

  • Install and configure a popular open source SSO solution from JA-SIG called CAS

  • Establish SSO between Alfresco and two of Tomcat's sample servlets

  • Create users and groups with the Alfresco API

  • Understand the out-of-the-box permissions

  • Define a custom permission...