WCM Roadmap webinar

1. Alfresco WCM Roadmap
Versions 3.2r, 3.3 and 4.x
Ben Hagan
WCM Product Manager
Michael G. Uzquiano
Director of Alfresco Web Platform and Tools
Brian Remmington
WCM Architect
www.alfresco.com

2. Agenda
● Release Schedule
● Where are we now?
● The web platform vision
● 3.2r, 3.3 and 4.x features
● Q and A

3. Release Schedule
● 3.2r release - Feb 15th
● 3.3 Community release - March Agenda
● 3.3 Enterprise release - May

4. Where we are now?
Document Management Web Content Management
● Content Associations ● Deployment
● Content Rules ● Sandboxes
● Alfresco Records Management ● Snapshots
● Content Translation Support ● Renditions
● Alfresco Share ● XML Authoring Interface

5. The Web Platform Vision
● Common content services
● Powerful Web Content Production
● In-Context Editing
● Presentation Component Management
● Website Production
● Web Delivery Runtime
● Web Developer Tools – Spring Surf
● Fast, scalable, highly available content repository
● Highly extensible and pluggable
● Standards-based interfaces - CMIS, REST

6. Web Content Production
● Alfresco Web Editor
● Evolution of Web Studio
● Pluggable, modular application / UI framework
● Content editing in the context of a page
● Presentation editing for Surf based websites
● Alfresco Web Producer
● Alfresco Share-based Web Content Management
● Create and manage rich, interactive websites
● Define site navigation and presentation elements
● Manage user roles and permissions

7. The Web Platform Vision
Web Application
CMIS, REST
Alfresco Web Delivery
Runtime Repository
Alfresco Web Alfresco Web Alfresco Web
Producer Editor Preview
Alfresco Editorial
Repository Deployment
Change sets, Renditions

8. Alfresco Editorial Repository
Web Application
CMIS, REST
Alfresco Web Delivery
Runtime Repository
Alfresco Web Alfresco Web Alfresco Web
Producer Editor Preview
Alfresco Editorial
Repository Deployment
Change sets, Renditions,
Deployment

9. Content Rendering API
● Alfresco 3.3
● A new content service to allow creation of content renditions Agenda
● Easily re-purpose content for web usage
● Service for non-AVM based content
● Maintain a child-association (primary or secondary) of type
"rn:renditioned" between the source item and rendition
● Search for all renditions of a specific content item
● Specify access permissions to be applied to a given rendition
● Update to a content item – option to re-generate renditions

10. Content Rendering API
● Render a document into a different format Agend
● Render an image into a different format a
● Render and image to a different size
● Render and cropped version of an image
● Execute a FreeMarker template against a content item.
● Chain renditions actions together
Source Content New Rendition
Item Rendering API

11. Work Packages
● Collaborative activity-based workspaces
● Alfresco core repository
● Create a shared workspace for an activity
● Invite people to collaborate on an activity
● Isolated from other activities – merge when
ready
● Currently in design stage
● Alfresco 4.X timeframe

12. Performance Optimizations
● Ongoing performance optimisations
● Hibernate removal – more control, better supportability
● Scalability

13. Alfresco Web Editor
Web Application
CMIS, REST
Alfresco Web Delivery
Runtime Repository
Web Producer
Alfresco Web Alfresco Web Preview Server
Alfresco Web
Producer
Share Editor (AWE)
Editor Preview
Alfresco Editorial
Repository Deployment
Change sets, Renditions,
Deployment

14. Alfresco Web Editor
● Alfresco 3.3
● AWE – Alfresco Web Editor Agenda
● Evolution of Web Studio
● In-Context Editing
● Surf application incorporating the Alfresco Forms Engine
● Deployed either:
● Stand alone
● As part of your Surf application

15. Alfresco Web Editor
● Consists of:
● Toolbar – Extensible JavaScript framework
Agenda
● Edit Content Markers – indicates editable content
● Template Developer
● Add “Edit Content” placeholders
● Select the default Toolbar position
● Language Support - JSP support initially – Tag Library
● Available stand alone for use outside of an Alfresco environment
● Graceful Degradation - JavaScript and CSS

16. Alfresco Web Editor
AWE Client App Browser
AWE AWE Template Extensions
Alfresco Web
Editor Web Application
Alfresco Repository

17. Alfresco Web Editor
● JavaScript and CSS enabled – ● Forms Service being used to edit
toolbar rendered content.

18. Spring Surf Compatibility
● Alfresco Web Editor
● Common JS Client Side Framework Agenda
● Used by Alfresco
● Used by Spring Surf Surf
● Toolbar
● Extensible, pluggable

19. Web Producer
Web Application
CMIS, REST
Alfresco Web Delivery
Runtime Repository
Alfresco Web Alfresco Web Alfresco Web
Producer Editor Preview
Alfresco Editorial
Repository Deployment
Change sets, Renditions,
Deployment

20. Web Producer
● Alfresco Share – Core WCM client tools
● New Share site type Agenda
● Focused WCM tools
● Create and manage rich, interactive websites
● Define site navigation structures
● Wire up site presentation elements
● Manage content library
● Content workflow
● User roles and content permissions
● Template management
● Meta data management

21. Web Delivery Runtime (CMIS)
Web Application
CMIS, REST
Alfresco Web Delivery
Runtime Repository
Alfresco Web Alfresco Web Alfresco Web
Producer Editor Preview
Alfresco Editorial
Repository Deployment
Change sets, Renditions,
Deployment

22. Web Delivery Runtime (CMIS)
● 3.3 and beyond Strategy
● Common content services Agenda
● Fast, scalable, highly available content repository
● Highly extensible and pluggable
● Standards-based, technology agnostic interfaces:
● CMIS API’s
● SQL-like query
● REST Interface

23. Deployment Services
Web Application
CMIS, REST
Alfresco Web Delivery
Runtime Repository
Web Producer Alfresco Web Preview Server
Share Editor (AWE)
Alfresco Editorial
Repository Deployment
Change sets, Renditions,

24. Deployment Services
● 3.2r – Runtime Scalability
● AVM to DM Deployment
● Allow the core Alfresco repository to be utilised in the delivery tier
● Dynamic Content Services
● User Generated Content
● Transformations
● Clustering – deploy to a single node
● Straight through publishing
● Utilise Content Rules
● Auto classify
● Renditions created automatically

25. Deployment Services
● 3.3 – DM to DM Transfer
● Rich data structures and content modelling
● Associations
● Aspects
● Properties
● 3.x – DM to:
● File System
● Database etc..

26. Spring Surf Web Platform
Web Application
CMIS, REST
Alfresco Web Delivery
Runtime Repository
Web Producer Alfresco Web Preview Server
Share Editor (AWE)
Alfresco Editorial
Repository Deployment
Change sets, Renditions,
Deployment

27. Spring Surf Web Platform
● Spring Surf Project
● Scriptable and content-driven web presentation Agenda
● Semantic Content and Presentation Content!
● Web Scripts, Surf, Web Studio, Developer
Tools
● Joint effort between Alfresco and SpringSource
● Spring Community Process
● Formal Spring Extension – Apache 2.0 License
● Release 1.0.0 Milestone 3
● Web Script Documentation (wsDoc)
● Portal Integration (JSR-268 via Portlet MVC)
● Web Studio (aligned with Alfresco)
● Release 1.0.0 Final
● Concurrent with Alfresco 3.3! (May 2010)

28. Spring Surf Web Platform
● Spring Surf Extensions
● Web Scripts
● Surf
Agenda
● Web Studio
● Developer Tools - Plugins
● SpringSource Tool Suite
● Spring Roo
● Sample Sites
● Spring Travel
● Pet Clinic
● Quick Start
● Tutorials
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29. Summary – 3.2r and 3.3
● 3.2r - AVM to Alfresco (DM) Deployment
● 3.3 - Content Rendering API
● 3.3 - AWE – In-Context Editing
● 3.3 - Alfresco to Alfresco Transfer – DM Deployment
● 3.3 - Spring Surf 1.0.0 Final
● Future – 3.4 to 4.X
● Web Producer – Share based WCM UI
● Work Packages - activities / change sets

30. Questions
● Q and A
Agenda