Recall from Chapter 1, The Alfresco Platform, that SomeCo is rolling out Alfresco across the organization. Each department has its own type of content to work with and different requirements for how it works with that content. SomeCo could just start uploading content into Alfresco. That would be better than nothing, but it doesn't take advantage of the full power of the platform, and makes for a really boring (and short) book. SomeCo would be better off formalizing the different types of content it works with by extending the Alfresco content model to make it SomeCo-specific.
Let's start small and build the model up over successive examples. First, let's create a custom content type for Whitepapers, which are a type of marketing document. This is going to involve creating a content model file, which is expressed as XML, and then telling Alfresco where to find it using a Spring bean configuration...