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Java Annotations for Your Alfresco Content Model

rmonteiro — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 23:38:47 GMT

The purpose of this article is to present a very easy and handy way of mapping your Alfresco content model in Java Classes through usage of Java Annotations. This way the access to the properties of your node is much more transparent than through direct usage of the Alfresco Java api. You will be ab

Re: Java Annotations for Your Alfresco Content Model

dhalupa — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 08:45:07 GMT

NIce work, although annotation seems a bit redundant in this case. Height getter method should map itself to height property by convention, without the need for additional annotation. You might also consider injecting a reference to ServiceRegistry on instantiation and make a bean repository aware.

Anyhow, great idea

Re: Java Annotations for Your Alfresco Content Model

rmonteiro — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 09:17:44 GMT

The idea is that the method on your class java doesn't have to use the same name that it's used on the model. In this case is the same for simplicity, but the annotation is made more generic than that. So it's not exactly redundant… The bean aware is of course the next extension idea after you see the thing, but I prefer having both methods for doing the thing. I am glad you like it.

Re: Java Annotations for Your Alfresco Content Model

jpfi — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 10:39:57 GMT

hehe, nice idea & well done!

Re: Java Annotations for Your Alfresco Content Model

rmonteiro — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 09:27:23 GMT

I put it a new version of the pdf avilable. Most of the changes are related with english errors of the (let's call it) draft version. There are no changes on code. But I clarified the topic pointed by dhalupa in case it was not clear by the code itself.