Customize the Entire Alfresco platform with New Book from Packt
Nov 3rd, 20:34 UTC
Alfresco Developer Guide is a new book from Packt that walks users through customizing Document Management and Web Content Management on the Alfresco Platform. Written by Jeff Potts, the Director of the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Practice at Optaros, this book shows users how to create their own applications that interact with Alfresco via RESTful web scripts.
Alfresco is an open source platform for Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions. ECM includes things like Document Management, Web Content Management, Collaboration/Enterprise 2.0, Digital Asset Management, Records Management, and Imaging. At its core is a repository for rich content like documents, web assets, XML, and multimedia. Implementing Alfresco usually involves extending the repository to accommodate a business-specific metadata and business logic. This book helps get these extensions done using a combination of Java, JavaScript, XML, and FreeMarker.
This book introduces the Alfresco web client with new UI actions, JavaServer Faces components, custom JSPs, dialogs, and wizards, and helps set up the development environment using Eclipse, Apache Ant, and MySQL. Along with learning to extend Alfresco's content model with business-specific metadata, and writing custom actions, metadata extractors and content transformers using Java and JavaScript, users will also be shown how to write a Java service that is accessible from the JavaScript API.
Through this book, developers will be able to create their own REST API to enable a front-end web site to interact with the repository via AJAX, and secure the repository by defining custom roles and integrating Alfresco with JA-SIG CAS, an open source Single Sign-On (SSO) solution to authenticate against LDAP. Non-technical users can contribute content into the repository by creating a web form, and also transform that content using XSLT and FreeMarker.
Java developers interested in writing code to customize Alfresco for their organization or who are creating custom applications will find this book useful. This book is out now and is available from Packt. For more information, please visit http://www.packtpub.com/alfresco-developer-guide/book
(Submitted by Harish Kumaresh of Packt Publishing)
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