Introduction

An API (Application Programming Interface) is an interface implemented and offered by a software program that enables other applications to interact with it, or enables developers to write other applications on top of it. An API can be exposed in several different forms, such as internal class model and implementation using which you can write your program, or as different services, for example, web services. As a solution developer of an Enterprise framework, you need to be proficient on the APIs provided and exposed by the framework.

Alfresco, like any other enterprise open source framework, exposes a number of APIs including Alfresco SDK (Software Development Kit) a set of development tools that allows the creation of an application for a certain software package or framework and JavaScript API.

The JavaScript API is a unique model for writing programs and services using JavaScript (ECMA Script) 1.6 compatible files. The API enables developers to write scripts that can access...