topic Re: Manage static content in Alfresco Archive

Manage static content

chithra — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:06:15 GMT

hi,I need to manage static content for my web applications using Alfresco.i.e. Images that are uploaded via Alfresco need to be referenced by other web applications. Please let me know how to achieve thisThanks,

Re: Manage static content

mrogers — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:39:58 GMT

That's an easy WCM use-case.

You need to tell us what you mean by "manage" before anyone can help give you more detailed responses.

Re: Manage static content

chithra — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:51:02 GMT

Thanks for your reply.

My requirement is as follows:
I've a couple of web applications running in jboss. these apps have some images that are bundled inside their war files.
I want to upload these images through WCM and make the web apps access images from this space.

My questions are:
1. Should i install alfresco in the same jboss where the apps are running?
2. How do i reference the uploaded WCM path in the apps?
3. My apps are in JOSSO. Can i jossify alfresco also?

Thanks.

Re: Manage static content

mrogers — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:49:02 GMT

Where you run the alfresco authoring environment is up to you and your network architecture.    But typically for a public web facing application the authoring environment is back behind the firewall.

For the simple case of some images to be used by some webapps I'd just deploy them to the filesystem of your jboss server.    And have your webapps access them locally.    That will be fastest.

If your requirement becomes more complex and for example turns into an image library which needs access control and search via metadata, then you can deploy your content inside a runtime instance of Alfresco and have your webapps access Alfresco via one of the remote interfaces.    We recommend web scripts for doing this.

Re: Manage static content

chithra — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:48:09 GMT

>>If your requirement becomes more complex and for example turns into an image library which needs access control and >>search via metadata, then you can deploy your content inside a runtime instance of Alfresco and have your webapps >>access Alfresco via one of the remote interfaces. We recommend web scripts for doing this.

Yes, this is what i'm looking for. Can you please let me know how to access the alfresco content using remote interfaces/web scripts? Any link relating to this would be helpful to me.

Thanks,

Re: Manage static content

chithra — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:02:12 GMT

i'm unable to find any site which gives me an example to access images.
Please help me with a sample script or link to a site with such info.

Thanks