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Alfresco 3 Enterprise Content Management Implementation
Alfresco 3 Enterprise Content Management Implementation

Alfresco 3 Enterprise Content Management Implementation: How to customize, use, and administer this powerful, Open Source Java-based Enterprise CMS

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Alfresco 3 Enterprise Content Management Implementation

Chapter 2. Installing Alfresco

One of the remarkable features of Alfresco is the ease with which it can be installed and deployed. The simple out of the box installation is quite straight forward, with preconfigured options that are aimed at having a complete, working content management system in no time. This chapter provides you with a basic understanding of Alfresco architecture, various installation options, and the key terminologies used. By the end of this chapter, you will be well equipped with the information necessary to make a choice of a suitable operating system, database, application server, and other software required for your installation. This chapter is essential reading matter for anyone not already familiar with Alfresco.

By the end of this chapter, you will have learned about:

  • The overall architecture of Alfresco

  • Determining what is the correct installation option for you

  • Out of the box full installation of Alfresco

  • Installing Alfresco and all of the required software

  • Installing...

Installing Alfresco


Before delving directly into installation, it is important for you to understand the architecture behind Alfresco and the various installation options available to you. This will help you to make good decisions in selecting the appropriate software for your business application.

Out of the box installation architecture

The Out of the box deployment of Alfresco is a typical web application architecture, consisting of different layers, as shown in the next figure. This new architecture is basically N-tier and delivers scalability without the need for massive hardware and software investment. It can also accommodate more users with the existing hardware resources. The layered architecture of Alfresco provides the benefits of easily manageable, flexible, and highly scalable content management solution.

Client Applications layer

The Client Applications layer contains the actual application, as the web browser, on the user's machine, that is, basically the presentation layer. Out...

Summary


You have many options to choose from when installing Alfresco. Alfresco installers for the Windows and Linux operating systems make the installation process so simple that you could install all of the installation software such as JDK, MySQL, Alfresco, SharePoint protocol, OpenOffice, Microsoft Office Addins and so on, within minutes. On the Windows platform you can run Alfresco as a service or as console application.

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Key benefits

  • Manage your business documents with version control, library services, content organization, and advanced search
  • Create collaborative web sites using document libraries, wikis, blogs, forums, calendars, discussions, and social tagging
  • Integrate with external applications such as Liferay Portal, Adobe Flex, iPhone, iGoogle, and Facebook
  • Automate your business process with the advanced workflow concepts of Alfresco 3
  • Fully revised and updated for version 3.0, covering Alfresco Surf and more

Description

Alfresco 3.0 has generated a lot of curiosity with its new content management features. Users have been waiting for a book that covers these concepts along with the security, dashboards, and configuration features of Alfresco 3. Alfresco 3 includes Alfresco Surf, a new N-Tier Architecture, which delivers scalability and accommodates more users on existing hardware resources. This new release also includes a draft implementation of the CMIS specification, and Microsoft Office SharePoint Protocol support. The new multi-tenancy features enable Alfresco ECM to be configured as a single-instance multi-tenant environment. This well-crafted and easy-to-use book is a complete guide to implementing enterprise content management in your business using Alfresco 3. It covers the enhanced document management, a new web-based collaborative application called Alfresco Share, and various integration options with external applications. Alfresco 3 offers true Enterprise Content Management (ECM) by providing an open source alternative to Microsoft SharePoint, Documentum, and Interwoven. It is the most popular Java-based CMS with over 1.5 million downloads, 50,000 live sites, 74,000 community members, and with more than 150 application extensions in forge. This book guides you through creating smart, collaborative content repositories and shows how to use Alfresco 3 to create more elegant document sharing, better collaborative working, and reliable automated workflow processes. The book also explains how administrators can set up Alfresco 3 for multiple business units as a single-instance multi-tenant environment. Business users can leverage Alfresco Share, a new built-in web-based collaborative content management application bundled with Alfresco repository. It simplifies capturing, sharing, and retrieval of information across virtual teams. This book shows you how to unleash the power of Alfresco 3 to create collaborative working systems in your enterprise

Who is this book for?

This book is designed for system administrators, experienced users, and business owners who want to install and use Alfresco in their teams or businesses. Because Alfresco is free, many teams can install and experiment with its ECM features without any upfront cost, often without management approval. The book assumes a degree of technical confidence but does not require specialist system administration or developer skills to get a basic system up and running. Alfresco is particularly suitable for IT consultants who want or need to set up a flexible enterprise content management system for their clients, be that for demonstration, development, or as a mission-critical platform. This book gets you to that result quickly and effectively. Though this book is not a developer guide, various examples in the book will help developers to extend Alfresco functionality and to integrate Alfresco with external systems.

What you will learn

  • Working with users and membership accounts, including LDAP integration and single sign-on
  • Using Alfresco 3 as a smart document repository; working with automatic version tracking and control, and accessing the repository from the Web, shared network folders, FTP, or Microsoft office tools
  • Making content easy to find using search, content categorization, and metadata
  • Automating document management tasks with business rules and complete workflows
  • Working together using Alfresco s collaboration and syndication features to create effective working groups
  • Customizing the user interface, creating your own dashboard layouts; presenting content in custom ways relevant to your business
  • Integrating external applications such as Liferay Portal, iPhone, Face Book, iGoogle, Microsoft Outlook, Adobe Flex, and Ffmpeg video transcoder with Alfresco
  • Setting up a single instance multi-tenant system, configuring Alfresco as an in-bound email server, and setting up an audit trail

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Table of Contents

14 Chapters
Introduction to Alfresco Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Installing Alfresco Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Getting Started with Alfresco Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Implementing Membership and Security Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Implementing Document Management Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Implementing Business Rules Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Extending the Alfresco Content Model Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Implementing Workflow Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Integrating External Applications with Alfresco Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Advanced Collaboration Using Alfresco Share Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Customizing the User Interface Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Search Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Implementing Imaging and Forms Processing Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Administering and Maintaining the System Chevron down icon Chevron up icon

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Paras Jain Feb 10, 2011
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This book is a good read for Alfresco beginners as well as for the people having prior knowledge of Alfresco. It covers basic installation instructions as well as relatively advanced topics like WebScripts, Workflow management, Share etc.I have not read the whole book but only a few chapters. It has given me good conceptual understanding of various topics.The book is not complete by any means. In my opinion, no book on Alfresco can. Because there are so many settings and configurations you have to take care of that couldn't be covered in a book. You will have to resort to google, forums and other sources. But this book is a good attempt towards that. I like that the authors have included many screenshots and code-snippets of configurations etc. It would be very helpful for the beginners.
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Daniel Gradecak Sep 04, 2009
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When I started reading this book I had the sentiment it will be a comparison between the JSF UI client and Share. However, the authors guide the reader through the complete deployment lifecycle, from the installation of Alfresco and MySql to the usage of the exposed interfaces or protocols like CIFS, CMIS and the new Sharepoint protocol.If you are new to Alfresco you can learn how to customize Alfresco UI or how to configure a SMTP server to work with Alfresco. Users, groups, permissions, roles, authentication and security are well explained, and there are enterprise use cases that can help the reader to put his hands in practice. Integration with LDAP (OpenLDAP and AD, chaining), JAAS, Kerberos, NTLM is completely described and SSO with CAS will help you to round the picture.This book is not only about explaining what Alfresco is and can do, but it will help the reader to chose the best solution for his installation. Users migration is a big thing for a lot of companies and you will not regret to read this book in order to learn how to do that.There are also advanced parts like creating custom models, categories, workflows with jBPM. In the chapter 9, the authors show how to integrate external applications with Alfresco. Integrations through webscripts with Droopal, Joomla, FLEX, emails, iPhone, Google, Facebook are very attractive and could be easily extended to a high level enterprise application.In the next chapter (10), it is clearly explained how one can benefit from the MS Office integration with Alfresco and how to use the Sharepoint protocol, in order to be able to use several repositories with one user interface.What I did like, simply because I do not have much experience with yet, is the OCR integration the chapter 13. So, scanning and optically recognizing text in documents could be one of the last steps in your document management integration and if you need video or audio transcoding than I can only recommend this book.In my opinion this book could be useful for system administrators, new and advanced users, as well as managers willing to use a open source content management system in their company.
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