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Alfresco One 5.x Developer???s Guide

You're reading from Alfresco One 5.x Developer???s Guide Discover what it means to be an expert developer by exploring the latest features available to you in Alfresco One 5.x

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787128163

Length 528 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Alfresco

Concepts

CMS

Authors (2):

Benjamin Chevallereau

Jeff Potts

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Table of Contents (11) Chapters

Preface

1. The Alfresco Platform FREE CHAPTER

2. Getting Started with Alfresco

3. Working with Content Models

4. Handling Content Automatically with Actions, Behaviors, Transformers, and Extractors

5. Customizing Alfresco Share

6. Creating an Angular Application

7. Exposing Content through a RESTful API with Web Scripts

8. Advanced Workflow

9. Amazing Extensions

10. Security

Summary

This chapter gave you an introduction to the Alfresco Web Script Framework. You began with a very simple Hello World script and then gradually moved to more complex examples culminating in a REST API for retrieving whitepapers, getting the average rating for a specific whitepaper, posting new ratings for a given whitepaper, and deleting all ratings for a specific whitepaper.

The SomeCo website was able to leverage the web scripts to add a whitepaper list along with a graphical ratings widget. The widget, the web scripts, and the backend model are generic enough to be used for other types of content as well.

Other takeaways from this chapter include the following:

Web scripts are mainly composed of an XML descriptor, one or more FreeMarker templates (one for each response format), and, optionally, a controller.
Controllers can be implemented as JavaScript or Java, and have full access to the Alfresco API. Controllers share data with the view via the model, which is essentially a HashMap...

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Authors (2)

Chevallereau

Chevallereau

Benjamin Chevallereau is a French software architect, based in London, who has been working on Alfresco projects for the last 8 years and Ephesoft projects for the last 3 years. He implemented solutions for small companies and global organizations in different domains such as transport, finance, and government. He has worked for different Alfresco-recognized partners in France, the UK, and USA, including Armedia LLC, Zaizi, Michelin / Wipro, and BlueXML. He is also one of the committers and PMC members of the Apache CMIS Chemistry project.

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Jeff Potts

Jeff Potts

Jeff Potts is the founder of Metaversant Group, Inc., a consulting firm focused on content management, search, and workflow. Jeff brings over 20 years of Enterprise Content Management implementation experience to organizations of all sizes including the Fortune 500. Throughout his consulting career he has worked on a number of projects for clients across the media and entertainment, airline, consumer packaged goods, and retail sectors. Jeff began working with and blogging about Alfresco in November of 2005. In 2006 and 2007, he published a series of Alfresco tutorials and published them on his blog, ecmarchitect.com. That work, together with other Community activity in Alfresco's forum, Wiki site, and JIRA earned him Alfresco's 2007 Community Contributor of the Year Award. In the past, Mr. Potts has worked for Alfresco Software, Inc. as Chief Community Officer, Optaros as Senior Practice Director, and Hitachi Consulting as Vice President where he ran the ECM practice.

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