web scripts vs web service

ra74 — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:55:28 GMT

What's the advantage of using web scripts over web services ?Currently alfresco acts as a standalone black box repository server and I'm using web service client to perform * CRU(D) operations on a node* search by metadata* getting children of a node* browsing node history and getting specific versi

Re: web scripts vs web service

rivetlogic — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:53:36 GMT

Hi,

The basic advantages of Web Scripts (Restful Web Services) vs Web Service (SOAP) can be found all over the internet.

Alfresco's support for Web Services (SOAP) in the latest versions has been great. I would recommend that you take a look at the Wiki , Unit tests, and Source of the latest version. Especially the ones for the group creation and management (http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Access_Control_Web_Service_Enhancements). In earlier versions these required writing custom actions.

At the same time, Alfresco's support for Web Scripts has improved tremendously ever since this was introduced ( almost 2 years now. Alfresco 2.1 has web scripts api's).

I would not recommend rewriting all the code if this will be a significant amount of work. One way would be to add any improvements using web scripts and transition into "RestFul" way of accessing alfresco. Also consider "Surf" and Alfresco "Studio". You should be able to listen to a good number of recorded webinar sessions (http://www.alfresco.com/about/events/ondemand/).

Just the migration will provide a good amount of storage and performance boost due to the changes made to VersionStore implementation.

Best Regards,
Shagul

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