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Scenarios for developing app around Alfresco

pk_simmons — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:21:33 GMT

HelloI have a question about possible ways for implementing a custom application around Alfresco.Lets say that my application contains a set of services - some would need access to the document repository but others contain an unrelated business logic (custom logic beans, scheduled jobs, database ac

Re: Scenarios for developing app around Alfresco

jpfi — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:35:46 GMT

Hi,
I'd prefer 1. Instead of using JCR, CMIS is perhaps also a possibility:
In short using an CMIS repository (e.g. Alfresco) by a standardized WebService or AtomPub(REST) based access.
Cheers,
Jan

Re: Scenarios for developing app around Alfresco

t_broyer — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:46:28 GMT

Hello

I have a question about possible ways for implementing a custom application around Alfresco.

Lets say that my application contains a set of services - some would need access to the document repository but others contain an unrelated business logic (custom logic beans, scheduled jobs, database access - all this generic stuff).

1. Implement a separate application (separate WAR/EAR), communicate with Alfresco using webservices (SOAP, REST)
- I can build my application any way I choose,
- a (unnecessary) overhead from using webservices.

Alfresco Share is built this way, so the overhead probably isn't as big as you might think (depends what you want to do with Alfresco though, of course)

I'd personnaly go this way (using web scripts to expose Alfresco as "RESTful services")

Re: Scenarios for developing app around Alfresco

pk_simmons — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 08:57:53 GMT

Hmm, so something like:
- expose a repository related functionality via REST services,
- consume them in separate application.

I must do some prototyping - a performance overhead is a wild guess now as there are few other factors like additional thin client. A direct access would be more performant and elegant, but maybe some JAX-RS client could provide at least easy marshalling/unmarshalling.

Testability of the all-in-Alfresco-solution isn't clear, either.

Ok, thx for yout throughts.