The document provides 10 tips for new developers working with Alfresco. It discusses the key technologies used in Alfresco including Java versions, Spring Framework, Angular, SOLR, BPM, REST APIs, Docker, and Kubernetes. For each tip it highlights the relevant technologies and concepts a new developer should understand when working with Alfresco.

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10Tips Every New Developer
in Alfresco Should Know
Angel Borroy
Developer at USTGlobal

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A first approach
to Alfresco in
2019 can be
overwhelming

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Java 8 (2014) – LTS
Lambdas, Stream API, Date and Time API,
no permanent memory
Java 9 (2017)
jshell, Concurrency API, HTTP 2.0, Process API
Java 10 (2018)
Local-variable type inference, class-data sharing,
root certificates, thread-local handshakes
Java 11 (2018) – LTS
HttpClient standard, lambda parameters,
dynamic class-file constants
6.0
6.1

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Spring Framework 5.1
XML based Bean definition
AOP
Transaction
Spring Surf 6.20
Web Scripts
Spring Test 5.1
SpringRunner
2
IoC Container

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Spring Boot 2
Auto-Configuration
Security
MVC
Data Access
Spring Cloud
Discovery
Service Registry
Spring Cloud Stream
Binders to Message Brokers
Spring Cloud Kubernetes
Discovery
Cluster features (pods, leader…)
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Server Side alfresco.war
Rhino 1.7
Support JavaScript 1.7
Partial support for ES6 & ES2016+
Client Side share.war
JSON
YUI 2.9.0
Aikau 1.0.101
Dojo 1.10.4
JQuery 1.11
Spring Surf MVC

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Before ADF… Angular!
ES6
TypeScript
Angular CLI
Components
Dependency
Events
Modules
Directives
Pipes
i18n
Webpack
Packagr

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And also Angular modules
@angular/material
@angular/forms
@angular/http
@angular/router
@ngrx/store
@ngx-translate/core
Using the right tools

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SOLR 6
Indexer / Tracker
Cores administration
Status (Transaction, ACL, Node, Cache)
Cross locale configuration
Facets
Query languages (FTS / CMIS)
Transactional metadata query
Clustering
Sharding
Replication
SOLR 7 + elastic
6.x
?

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Alfresco Insight Engine
Solr SQL
Apache Zeppelin
JDBC Connector
Qlik
Tableau
nlp4j
SolrCloud autoscaling!

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BPM
BPMN 2.0
Activiti extensions
Java API
JavaScript (Nashorn)
Content Model
Repo (XML)
Share Forms (XML)
OMG's Pizza Collaboration Example

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Activiti Core
Spring Boot
TaskRuntime API
ProcessRuntime API
Activiti Cloud
RuntimeBundle
Query
Audit
Connectors
Kubernetes
Helm

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OPENAPI
HTTP
REST
JSON
OAuth 2
CORS

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ORM is that easy!

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Repository
JDBC
MyBatis
Upgrading patches (SQL)
Database
Segmentation
Clustering

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Dockerfile
FROM
RUN
CMD
EXPOSE
Docker Compose
services
build
image
ports
networks
Volumes

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SDK
Docker based
Public Docker Hub & private Quay Docker Images
CI / CD
Build custom images
Docker images repository

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k8s
Kubelet
Nodes
Containers
Pods
Services
Deployments
Ingress
Volumes
Helm Chart
Tools
kubectl
helm

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Containerization challenges
Security
Storage
Load Balancing
User / App Identification
CI / CD
Monitoring
Logging
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22. keensoft angelborroy @AngelBorroy
10Tips Every New Developer
in Alfresco Should Know
Angel Borroy
Developer at USTGlobal