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Serving binary content with webscripts in Alfresco 2.2

unmeshjoshi — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 08:57:03 GMT

Hi,We are using alfresco as web content management system. Content editors create HTML content in alfresco. But we are not using alfresco to serve the web content to the user. We have a J2EE app in front of alfresco which forwards user requests to alfresco to get the content using REST API (impleme

Re: Serving binary content with webscripts in Alfresco 2.2

mrogers — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 08:59:19 GMT

Or another approach is to use WCM to deploy the images onto your web server.

Re: Serving binary content with webscripts in Alfresco 2.2

unmeshjoshi — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 09:04:39 GMT

Or another approach is to use WCM to deploy the images onto your web server.

So do you think our approach of fetching images from alfresco is feasible? How to achieve this with alfresco 2.2, which doesnt have content streaming web scripts?

Where can I find documentation about configuring WCM to deploy images to web server?

Thanks,
Unmesh

Re: Serving binary content with webscripts in Alfresco 2.2

kmehta31 — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:45:52 GMT

Hi Unmesh,

The approach Roger is describing here is to manage the images in the folder and deploy to web server using FSR.
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/FSR - this might help

I dont think there is any direct approach. Other way to do that is embed the url within xml tag, call the webscript that would return you xml file. You might use Jaxb for XML to Java Object transformation and use the links within your image tag.
This would require all your images have proper mapping (Associations) in the web forms for different pages.

Re: Serving binary content with webscripts in Alfresco 2.2

mrogers — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:43:54 GMT

Yes you can stream content out of earlier versions of Alfresco. Admittedly you can't use CMIS, but there's several streaming interfaces that have been there for a long time.

However for static content like images where you don't need any of the alfresco functionaility like access control or full text searching you are paying an overhead for little benefit. That's why I suggested deploying your images out of Alfresco.