How does it work?

We've looked now at many of the default capabilities of Share. In the rest of this chapter, we will examine various ways in which Share can be configured.

Share configuration files

Alfresco developers were influenced early on by the Spring framework in the creation and architecture of the Alfresco software. The core Java code is based on Spring, and much of the Spring philosophy of flexibility and easy configurability was carried through to the creation of the Surf web framework and to other design aspects of the Alfresco platform.

Note

Beginning with the 3.2 release of Alfresco, many repository configurations within Alfresco can be made without shutting down the entire Alfresco server. Alfresco was designed to work as a collection of independent subsystems, although the ability to use subsystems is available only as a feature of the Enterprise version of Alfresco. Alfresco subsystems can be administered using a JMX client, like JConsole. JConsole is available from the OpenJDK...