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Alfresco One 5.x Developer???s Guide: Discover what it means to be an expert developer by exploring the latest features available to you in Alfresco One 5.x , Second Edition

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Alfresco One 5.x Developer???s Guide

Chapter 2. Getting Started with Alfresco

Before you can customize Alfresco, you need to get your development environment in order. In this chapter, you'll learn how to install the software development kit (SDK), how to build and deploy customizations, helpful debugging tips, and the cleanest and quickest way to reset your Alfresco sandbox. The chapter includes an example that shows how to package and deploy some extremely basic customizations just to get your feet wet. Specifically, you are going to learn:

  • How to install Alfresco on your environment
  • How to install and configure the software on which the SDK depends
  • How to extend Alfresco without modifying the Alfresco source code or configuration
  • How to package and deploy your customizations
  • How to use the Eclipse debugger and log4j to troubleshoot problems
  • How to start clean for testing or debugging purposes

This book will help you how to install Alfresco on your local by creating a virtual machine to host Alfresco. There are a...

Introduction to the Alfresco SDK

Alfresco is providing its SDK as a Maven based development kit. It provides a quick and easy approach to develop your own Alfresco extensions. You can use this SDK in any integrated development environment (IDE), and even in the console. However, we'll use Spring Tool Suite (STS) in this chapter. With this SDK you can develop, package, test, run, document and release your Alfresco extension project. It is important to note that while previous versions of the Alfresco SDK were based around Ant, the latest versions of the SDK are based on Maven.

The Alfresco SDK includes three different Maven archetypes described below. These archetypes aim to provide a standardized approach to development, release, and deployment of Alfresco extensions.

Maven archetypes

There are three Maven archetypes that can be used to generate Alfresco extension projects. The following project types, and archetypes, are available:

  • Alfresco Repository AMP: This archetype is used to create...

Create your first application

We'll first discover how we can use the Maven SDK and RAD to quickly create your own application. Even if we'll explore this option, we won't use it in the rest of the book. We'll use a more traditional approach that you'll be able to re-use in your own Alfresco projects.

Rapid application development

In this section, we'll take a small detour to talk about rapid application development. As explained before, Alfresco SDK provides three different archetypes. One of them is called the Alfresco AIO archetype. Using this archetype, you can easily implement all your customization in a unique STS project and run the full Alfresco platform. It means that you don't need to install Alfresco on your system and it provides a perfect starting point for full-blown Alfresco projects where the final artifacts should be the customized alfresco.war and share.war.

In a typical project, you want to develop a reusable module that should be distributed...

Troubleshooting

There are three primary troubleshooting tools you will become intimately familiar with: Log4j, your favorite Java debugger, and the Alfresco Node Browser. There are other, less-frequently used tools and techniques that will be discussed when the time is right.

Log4j

Most of you are already familiar with this common logging tool, so not a lot of discussion is needed. For everyone else, here are the basics. The verbosity of the log output, the specific classes being logged, and other logging settings are controlled by Log4J property file:

If you are looking at a temporary change, you can update the file custom-log4j.properties in the directory <TOMCAT_HOME>|shared|classes|alfresco|extension.

  • Don't forget the JMX option. The JMX interface allows to access Alfresco Enterprise via a standard JMX console that supports JMX Remoting (JSR-160). It's a very useful tool to perform on-demand change at runtime without needing to restart the server.
  • If you are looking for...

Starting over

During development, it is quite common to have to start with a fresh repository. Usually this is because you've made a significant change to the model, and you'd rather blow everything away than clean up inconsistencies. The Alfresco repository is made up of three parts: the metadata stored in the relational database, the binary files stored on the file system and the Solr indexes. To clear out the repository, you have to clear out all three. If you delete the data directory but not the database, you will see a bunch of data integrity problems because the binary files that the database knows about are no longer there. Be sure that Alfresco is stopped.

Let's start by the database:

  1. Start PostgreSQL: service alfresco start postgresql
  2. Recreate the database:
            /opt/alfresco/postgresql/bin/psql -U postgres 
            Password for user postgres: admin 
            postgres=#DROP DATABASE alfresco; 
      ...

Introduction to the Alfresco SDK


Alfresco is providing its SDK as a Maven based development kit. It provides a quick and easy approach to develop your own Alfresco extensions. You can use this SDK in any integrated development environment (IDE), and even in the console. However, we'll use Spring Tool Suite (STS) in this chapter. With this SDK you can develop, package, test, run, document and release your Alfresco extension project. It is important to note that while previous versions of the Alfresco SDK were based around Ant, the latest versions of the SDK are based on Maven.

The Alfresco SDK includes three different Maven archetypes described below. These archetypes aim to provide a standardized approach to development, release, and deployment of Alfresco extensions.

Maven archetypes

There are three Maven archetypes that can be used to generate Alfresco extension projects. The following project types, and archetypes, are available:

  • Alfresco Repository AMP: This archetype is used to create...

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Do you want to create more reliable and secure solutions for enterprise apps? Alfresco One 5.x is your gateway to developing the best industry-standard enterprise apps and this book will help you to become a pro with Alfresco One 5.x development. This book will help you create a complete fully featured app for your organization and while you create that perfect app, you will explore and implement the new and intriguing features of Alfresco. The book starts with an introduction to the Alfresco platform and you’ll see how to configure and customize it. You will learn how to work with the content in a content management system and how you can extend it to your own use case. Next, you will find out how to work with Alfresco Share, an all-purpose user interface for general document management, and customize it. Moving on, you write web scripts that create, read, and delete data in the back-end repository. Further on from that, you’ll work with a set of tools that Alfresco provides; to generate a basic AnglularJS application supporting use cases, to name a few authentication, document list, document view. Finally, you’ll learn how to develop your own Alfresco Mobile app and understand how Smart Folders and Search manager work. By the end of the book, you’ll know how to configure Alfresco to authenticate against LDAP, be able to set up Single Sign-On (SSO), and work with Alfresco’s security services.

Who is this book for?

If you’re an enterprise app developer who wants to create custom applications with Alfresco, then this book is for you. Previous knowledge with Alfresco would be helpful but is not necessary.

What you will learn

  • Create and manage a custom content model
  • Configure the Alfresco Share user interface
  • Build a new AngularJS 2.0 application
  • Create business process definitions using Activiti Designer
  • Discover the most common extensions provided by Alfresco
  • Configure Alfresco to authenticate against LDAP, including & chaining" LDAP with Alfresco authentication
  • Get familiar with the latest features of Alfresco Mobile SDK, Smart Search, and the new Angular framework
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2. Getting Started with Alfresco Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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4. Handling Content Automatically with Actions, Behaviors, Transformers, and Extractors Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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6. Creating an Angular Application Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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If you are looking for a reference that will give you updates on Alfresco 5/One, then this reference can help. Just be sure that you know Alfresco 4.x and below otherwise you will get lost along the way because some discussions are left to the reader that has some experience on the previous Alfresco versions. Great book!
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Alfresco One 5.x Developers Guide is in large part a compilation of web published tutorials, blogs posts, etc.That in itself is very useful. Filtering web accessible information that is no longer relevant, putting subjects and examples in a user friendly order,calling out best practices and having one searchable document is a really good thing.A couple of things that I would like to see:.A compilation of examples arranged as a tutorial is nice but some more how and why Alfresco works would give the book's reader a huge edge over learning Alfresco development via the official documentation and what is available on the web.There appears to be some fundamental knowledge missing, especially in the early chapters. For example nodes and NodeRef's are fundamental to understanding how data is represented and accessed in Alfresco but a search on the term 'node' doesn't find anything Alfresco specific until page 70 where the Node Browser is introduced.My overall opinion is that this book is valuable as a reference and cook book. As an overview and tutorial it falls short.
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