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Extending Alfresco: Architecture and Frameworks to choose

ads — Wed, 12 May 2010 12:00:53 GMT

Hello all,I'm new in Alfresco world. 😉 My post is in order to stimulate a discussion on the better architecture and frameworks to choose in order to extend both Alfresco Web Client and Alfresco Share. Detailing, I'm going to develop two complex web applications with custom user interfaces on top o

Re: Extending Alfresco: Architecture and Frameworks to choose

joe_l3 — Wed, 12 May 2010 15:48:18 GMT

Hello ads,
welcome to alfresco world.
What you say is correct! Alfresco is powerful precisely because it is flexible and portabile! From version 1.2 of the repository, the system configuration has been designed to be extensible and overridable. I have developed some front-end applications that are based on Alfresco. I know very well RAAR …. but unfortunately this framework is still at version 1.11, only compatible with Alfresco 3.0 (see http://wiki.rivetlogic.com/display/RAAR/Compatibility+Matrix). You may encounter compatibility problems due to refactoring of core classes on the new version of Alfresco (3.2r2 and 3.3). Take a look at this link http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Developer_Guide#Extending_the_Alfresco_Web_Client .Here you will find an Alfresco Development Overview.

Bye, joe.l3

Re: Extending Alfresco: Architecture and Frameworks to choose

ads — Tue, 18 May 2010 08:50:43 GMT

Hi joe.l3, Hi all,
so for extending alfresco web client (Alfresco 3.2r or 3.3), we have three solutions:
- RaaR
Joe.13 reported it is bit outdated, so OUT;
- Jibe Framework
I think is a good to think the Java API, but documentation is very poor, so OUT;
- DoCasu
The last but not the least. I studied it and It should be the best solution today (I never used Extjs, but it seems very good). So OK.
What do you think?

Instead, in order to "extend" Alfresco Share what we should use?
And what is the idea underlying creating Spring Surf framework? What is used for?

Thank you
Bye!

Re: Extending Alfresco: Architecture and Frameworks to choose

ads — Tue, 18 May 2010 09:19:30 GMT

And I forgot…
are there any downloadable real web application based on docasu?

Sorry
😉

Re: Extending Alfresco: Architecture and Frameworks to choose

dhalupa — Tue, 18 May 2010 09:40:21 GMT

Hi joe.l3, Hi all,
so for extending alfresco web client (Alfresco 3.2r or 3.3), we have three solutions:
- RaaR
Joe.13 reported it is bit outdated, so OUT;
- Jibe Framework
I think is a good to think the Java API, but documentation is very poor, so OUT;
- DoCasu
The last but not the least. I studied it and It should be the best solution today (I never used Extjs, but it seems very good). So OK.
What do you think?

Instead, in order to "extend" Alfresco Share what we should use?
And what is the idea underlying creating Spring Surf framework? What is used for?

Thank you
Bye!

You are comparing apples and oranges. I have not played with RaaR, but Docasu and Jibe can not be compared. Jibe is an application framework with many extension and configuration options (perhaps even too many), while Docasu is Javascript application which can be changed only by changing source code of original application.

Re: Extending Alfresco: Architecture and Frameworks to choose

joe_l3 — Tue, 18 May 2010 13:52:16 GMT

And I forgot…
are there any downloadable real web application based on docasu?

Sorry
😉

Look here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/docasu/files/
and here: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Installing_Labs_3_on_Linux_with_command_line_interface#Adding_Docasu_to_Alfresco_3.0b_Lab

However, I suggest an alternative way: what about CMIS? Take a look here: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/CMIS

joe.l3

Re: Extending Alfresco: Architecture and Frameworks to choose

joe_l3 — Wed, 26 May 2010 09:36:44 GMT

…I know very well RAAR …. but unfortunately this framework is still at version 1.11, only compatible with Alfresco 3.0 (see http://wiki.rivetlogic.com/display/RAAR/Compatibility+Matrix)…

Rivet has published the new RAAR release. Resources available for Alfresco Community and Enterprise 3.2r2:
http://wiki.rivetlogic.com/display/RAAR/Downloads