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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

What is a workflow?


When Alfresco released version 1.4, it made a huge leap forward in enterprise readiness. That was the release when Alfresco embedded the JBoss jBPM engine into the product, which meant that enterprises could route Alfresco repository content through complex business processes. In 2010, Alfresco launched Activiti to replace JBoss JBPM. Activiti can be used embedded in Alfresco, but also as a standalone. For a while, Alfresco supported both jBPM and Activiti as an embedded workflow engine. However, from the latest 5.x version, jBoss is considered as deprecated and shouldn't be used.

Most content has some sort of process around it. That's why content repositories almost always have a mechanism to streamline, facilitate, and report against the business processes that produce, consume, or transform the content within them.

Note

The terms workflow and business process will be used interchangeably throughout this book.

But before geeking out on the wonders of graph-based execution...