topic Overview of our customisations in Alfresco Archive

Overview of our customisations

frederick — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 13:36:07 GMT

Hello,I'm currently implementing various modifications in Alfresco as a part of a CMS comparation project (the goal is to determine which features Alfresco lacks compared to other CMS, and how difficult the implementation of these features would be).Additionally, we tried to deploy Alfresco on sever

Re: Overview of our customisations

paulhh — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 14:40:24 GMT

Hi Frederick

These are great examples and I'm sure many people will want to give them a try or take them further. I would suggest you create a project or two on the new Alfresco Forge (http://forge.alfresco.com) - the code can then be available via CVS or SVN and you can decide whether to allow other people to work on the code.

Some of the tasks you have done will become easier in 1.3, with the dialog and wizard frameworks as well as the configurable actions. It may be possible to make your additions as pure extensions that people can just drop into their installation - which is obviously a goal of ours.

It would be useful to hear what was needed to run Alfresco under WebLogic.

Many thanks again for bringing this to everyone's attention.

Cheers
Paul.

Re: Overview of our customisations

martinbradford — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 10:54:35 GMT

Hi there,

I would also love to hear how you got it running on Weblogic! I have spent a couple of days trying - both Alfresco 1.2 and 1.3 on a Weblogic 9.1 server (Solaris). I always get errors during initialization along the lines of :

17:01:56,549 ERROR [org.alfresco.util.transaction.SpringAwareUserTransaction] Transaction didn't commit
org.springframework.dao.DataIntegrityViolationException: Non-root node has no primary parent:
child: system://system/f878fb95-f0c6-11da-a0b9-d33fe0de70f8

I have had it working under Tomcat, so I am reasonably confident that I understand the install process. I want to use it as part of a larger application suite and really cannot face doing it all under JBoss - I know it can deliver, but the administrative tools just are not good enough for my liking!

Martin

Re: Overview of our customisations

ghernando — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 17:50:05 GMT

Yes. The summary is quite impressive.

I'd be interested in seeing the work you've done keeping content in the Documentum repository.

Re: Overview of our customisations

kevinr — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 09:38:21 GMT

http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Install_BEA_Weblogic

Re: Overview of our customisations

martinbradford — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 15:39:28 GMT

http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Install_BEA_Weblogic

Hmmm, I'll try again, but this looks pretty much what I did before… Everything seemed to install correctly, but I still got the error message I described above…

Martin

Re: Overview of our customisations

kevinr — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 15:48:25 GMT

I tried this myself on Friday with a clean install of weblogic 9.1 - note that I am using Alfresco 1.3dev I haven't tried with 1.2.X I admit…

Cheers,

Kevin

Re: Overview of our customisations

martinbradford — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 14:24:54 GMT

Well, as I guessed, this did not make any difference - during the first Alfresco startup it fails with the following error :

15:09:48,882 ERROR [org.alfresco.util.transaction.SpringAwareUserTransaction] Transaction didn't commit
org.springframework.dao.DataIntegrityViolationException: Non-root node has no primary parent:
   child: system://system/ea091e50-faed-11da-a6ee-415d1c10ecf8
   at org.alfresco.repo.node.db.hibernate.HibernateNodeDaoServiceImpl.getPrimaryParentAssoc(HibernateNodeDaoServiceImpl.java:446)
   at jrockit.reflect.VirtualNativeMethodInvoker.invoke(Ljava.lang.Object;[Ljava.lang.ObjectLjava.lang.Object;(Unknown Source)
   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Ljava.lang.Object;[Ljava.lang.Object;J)Ljava.lang.Object;(Unknown Source)
   at org.springframework.aop.support.AopUtils.invokeJoinpointUsingReflection(AopUtils.java:335)
   at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.invokeJoinpoint(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:181)

I have had this every time I try to deploy to Weblogic - both Alfresco 1.2 and 1.3… As I said in my initial post, the deployment into Tomcat worked, so I do have all the necessary components and broadly the correct procedures… Anyone know what that error means?
The database has been initialized and many of the tables contain significant numbers of rows…

Martin

Re: Overview of our customisations

steve — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 15:46:04 GMT

Hello Martin,

Have you tried deploying Alfresco into Weblogic using a clean DB?
It would be useful for you to try to see if you still get the same error.

Steve

Re: Overview of our customisations

martinbradford — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 09:02:05 GMT

Hello Martin,

Have you tried deploying Alfresco into Weblogic using a clean DB?
It would be useful for you to try to see if you still get the same error.

Steve

yes - I dropped and recreated the DB and deleted the alfresco_data directory structure…

Martin

Re: Overview of our customisations

steve — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 10:42:43 GMT

Hi Martin,

I don't suppose you have tried it on a Windows machine have you?

Steve

Re: Overview of our customisations

martinbradford — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 19:09:59 GMT

Hi Martin,

I don't suppose you have tried it on a Windows machine have you?

Steve

No, that has never been an option which I would have considered to solve a problem :wink:

I'll give it a try when I can free up enough disk space on something running Windows…

Martin

Re: Overview of our customisations

sjeek — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 10:29:05 GMT

Most of these customization our available in the Forge. :wink:

Re: Overview of our customisations

vbaudry — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 09:05:46 GMT

Where can I find packages (or source code and ant) for the tree view ?

I'll be very interested in testing this functionnality.

Re: Overview of our customisations

frederick — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 10:01:05 GMT

The tree source files can be downloaded on the forge:

http://forge.alfresco.com

The project name is 'Tree Navigator Component'.
Please note that the project hasn't been updated for a while; if you encounter any issues, check the project forum for manual fixes:

http://forge.alfresco.com/forum/forum.php?forum_id=67