Alfresco 3 Web Services

Build Alfresco applications using Web Services, WebScripts and CMIS

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited

By: Ugo Cei and Piergiorgio Lucidi

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Build Alfresco applications using Web Services, WebScripts and CMIS

Key Features

Gain a comprehensive overview of the specifications of Web services
Implement the Alfresco specific Web Services
Get to grips with the Alfresco WebScripts and the Alfresco extensible RESTful API
Manipulate contents in Alfresco using different operations and APIs
Learn about the CMIS specification and its Alfresco implementation
Hands-on approach with examples built over the course of the book

Book Description

Alfresco 3 is the leading open source enterprise content management system that offers powerful features for interacting with the content in its repository from outside the system. These include the support for the Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) implementation, reusable web scripts, and a Web Services API.

This is the first book to show you how to use Web Services in Alfresco. Packed with examples, you'll learn how to build applications using Alfresco remote APIs based on SOAP and REST. You'll see how to use different APIs and bindings such as WebServices, WebScripts, and CMIS.

Alfresco 3 Web Services starts off by showing you the services exposed by the Alfresco Web Services API, and how the API fits into the Alfresco software architecture.You learn to develop your application firstly by setting up and testing your Java development environment using the Alfresco SDK in Eclipse IDE and secondly by associating the Alfresco source code and Javadocs in Eclipse.With the help of real world practical examples, you learn how to do things like create, sort, and call Web Scripts, and invoke remote calls to Alfresco repository. To get the most from the Web Services API, you need to know about the basics of the Content Manipulation Language (CML), and the book takes you through this.Examples such as the bookshop application show you how to sign in, change user sessions, get, remove and change public and private associated contents, manage a cart for your e-commerce application, and so on.Next, by implementing a Microsoft .NET application using the Alfresco Web Services API, you see how to perform operations against the repository from your .NET application.The book provides you with REST and SOAP concepts, their comparison, basics of the FreeMarker language, Atom Publishing Protocol, JavaScript controllers, and the Apache Chemistry project.By the end of this book, you will be able to put together your knowledge about CMIS and the Apache Chemistry toolkit to develop a complete working application that uses Alfresco, via CMIS, as a back-end storage. Last but not the least, this book also covers the WebServices security profiles— the best practices for Web Services to promote better interoperability.

What you will learn

Gain a comprehensive overview of the specifications of Web services
Learn how to manipulate contents in Alfresco using different operations and APIs
Build applications on top of Alfresco using Alfresco Web Services API
Extend the Alfresco RESTful API using WebScripts
Make your own different output renditions using FreeMarker
Explore the CMIS specification with all the details about the Alfresco implementation
Learn how to contact Alfresco with your client using one of the bindings of CMIS
Make your CMIS integration more standard using the Apache Chemistry project

Who this book is for

If you are a web developer who wants to build business applications on top of Alfresco, then this is the book for you. Basic understanding of XML, Web development concepts (HTTP, MVC) and Web Services is required.

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PDF ISBN: 978-1-84951-153-7

Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited

Publication date: 2025

Language: English

Pages: 436

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