A Developer’s Introduction to the Alfresco Platform Part One: Learning Your Way Around Part Two: The Content Model, Rules & Actions Part Three: Web Scripts, Surf, & CMIS Jeff Potts Content Management Practice Lead

What is Alfresco? Radically open content repository RESTful API, SOAP API, Java API, JavaScript API WebDAV, CIFS, FTP, SMTP JSR-170 (JCR), CMIS Draft, SharePoint Protocol Set of content-centric applications for specific functions such as document management, web content management, collaboration, records management Built on top of many open source components such as Spring, Lucene, Hibernate

Radically open content repository

RESTful API, SOAP API, Java API, JavaScript API

WebDAV, CIFS, FTP, SMTP

JSR-170 (JCR), CMIS Draft, SharePoint Protocol

Set of content-centric applications for specific functions such as document management, web content management, collaboration, records management

Built on top of many open source components such as Spring, Lucene, Hibernate

What can you do with Alfresco? Alfresco is a platform for ECM solutions: DM, WCM, RM, Imaging, DAM, BPM, Collaboration Document libraries, Knowledgebases, Team Sites Internet/Intranet/Extranet web site management Custom content-centric applications

Alfresco is a platform for ECM solutions: DM, WCM, RM, Imaging, DAM, BPM, Collaboration

Document libraries, Knowledgebases, Team Sites

Internet/Intranet/Extranet web site management

Custom content-centric applications

High-level View of Alfresco DM

High-level View of Alfresco WCM

High-level Custom Front-End Alfresco Surf Drupal

Demo Alfresco Explorer Add content Create content Edit metadata Perform a search Submit a workflow Alfresco Share Create a site Document Library Tagging Preview Blog Wiki Team Calendar

Alfresco Explorer

Add content

Create content

Edit metadata

Perform a search

Submit a workflow

Alfresco Share

Create a site

Document Library

Tagging

Preview

Blog

Wiki

Team Calendar

Obtaining Alfresco Requirements An operating system that can run Java A servlet container such as Tomcat or JBoss A Hibernate-compliant database Where to get it Alfresco home page Labs binaries Public SVN for Labs source Alfresco Customer/Partner site for Enterprise binaries Private SVN for Enterprise source Distribution Repository (bundled with Tomcat or WAR-only) Includes Alfresco Explorer and Alfresco Share SDK WCM add-on WCM FSR deployment process Source includes all of the above *http://www.alfresco.com/services/support/stacks/3.0/

Requirements

An operating system that can run Java

A servlet container such as Tomcat or JBoss

A Hibernate-compliant database

Where to get it

Alfresco home page Labs binaries

Public SVN for Labs source

Alfresco Customer/Partner site for Enterprise binaries

Private SVN for Enterprise source

Distribution

Repository (bundled with Tomcat or WAR-only)

Includes Alfresco Explorer and Alfresco Share

SDK

WCM add-on

WCM FSR deployment process

Source includes all of the above

Installing Alfresco Alfresco deploys as a web application Alfresco-Tomcat bundle Unzip, update the startup script (if needed) and run If no specific database is provided, an embedded database will be used Alfresco WAR file Deploys like any other WAR By default, looks for MySQL db alfresco/alfresco You'll need to copy the MySQL JDBC driver to $TOMCAT_HOME/common/lib On Linux, if you want CIFS, run as root

Alfresco deploys as a web application

Alfresco-Tomcat bundle

Unzip, update the startup script (if needed) and run

If no specific database is provided, an embedded database will be used

Alfresco WAR file

Deploys like any other WAR

By default, looks for MySQL db alfresco/alfresco

You'll need to copy the MySQL JDBC driver to $TOMCAT_HOME/common/lib

On Linux, if you want CIFS, run as root

For More Information… Alfresco Developer Guide http://www.packtpub.com/alfresco-developer-guide/book Alfresco Content Community http://hosted4.alfresco.com/alfresco Alfresco Forums http://forums.alfresco.com Alfresco Wiki http://wiki.alfresco.com Alfresco Blogroll http://blogs.alfresco.com/planet/ ECM Architect http://ecmarchitect.com Optaros Home Page http://www.optaros.com

Alfresco Developer Guide

http://www.packtpub.com/alfresco-developer-guide/book

Alfresco Content Community

http://hosted4.alfresco.com/alfresco

Alfresco Forums

http://forums.alfresco.com

Alfresco Wiki

http://wiki.alfresco.com

Alfresco Blogroll

http://blogs.alfresco.com/planet/

ECM Architect

http://ecmarchitect.com

Optaros Home Page

http://www.optaros.com