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Embedding Alfresco in another web application

enrico_it — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:55:38 GMT

Hello,I need to embed the alfresco core and services in another web application, completely different from the Alfresco Web Application.This web application will use another version of Spring, Hibernate, Web Container and related technologies.Do you think that this is possible? I have downloaded the

Re: Embedding Alfresco in another web application

mrogers — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:02:40 GMT

The alfresco core is fairly large and as you have seen the list of dependencies is long. Alfresco can and has been embedded but its not as easy as it should be.

You might be better off writing your new application to use alfresco remotely. The recommended approach is to use Web Scripts, although there's a bunch of other remote APIs available as well.

Re: Embedding Alfresco in another web application

enrico_it — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:05:02 GMT

Aren't the web scripts availables only from the version 3?
Thank for your reply.

Enrico

Re: Embedding Alfresco in another web application

mrogers — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:44:38 GMT

Web Scripts are available from Alfresco 2.1 onwards.

You may also like to look at the other remote APIs for older versions of Alfresco.