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Alfresco 3 Cookbook

You're reading from   Alfresco 3 Cookbook Over 70 recipes for implementing the most important functionalities of Alfresco

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2011
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849511087
Length 380 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Alfresco 3 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Getting Started FREE CHAPTER 2. Creating and Organizing Contents 3. Securing and Searching Contents 4. Rules—the Smart Spaces 5. Alfresco Administration Console 6. Customizing Alfresco Web Client 7. Alfresco Content Model 8. Alfresco JavaScript API 9. FreeMarker Templates 10. Web Scripts 11. Working with Workflows 12. Integrating with MS Outlook and MS Office 13. Configuring Alfresco E-Mail and File Servers 14. Building Alfresco Index

Introduction


This chapter will demonstrate how to install Alfresco, introduce Alfresco Explorer—the web client interface for managing the repository, and the applications that are bundled with Alfresco standard distribution.

Towards the end, you will understand how Alfresco stores and organizes the uploaded contents. We will also be acquainted with the default spaces that come with the Alfresco repository.

Today, Alfresco is the leading Open Source alternative to Enterprise Content Management—alternative to Microsoft SharePoint®, Documentum®, Open Text®, and so on. Alfresco is developed using best-of-breed Open Source technologies such as Spring, Hibernate, Lucene, modern standards such as JSR-168, JSR-170, Level 2 Web Services, Java Server Faces, and so on. Alfresco manages almost all types of content within an—enterprise documents, records, web pages, images, XML documents, or any other files.

Some of the most important capabilities and features of Alfresco are:

  • Document management

  • Web content management

  • Record management

  • Image management

  • Workflow

  • Search

  • Multilingual support

  • Multiplatform support

  • Clustered and Federated servers

  • Cloud-eady

  • Web 2.0 collaboration

  • Browser-based UI and desktop integration

  • JSR, SOAP, REST interfaces

  • Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS)

  • CIFS, SMB, WebDAV, FTP, and IMAP access channels

  • MS Office® Integration using MS SharePoint Protocol®

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Alfresco 3 Cookbook
Published in: Jul 2011
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781849511087
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