topic Re: .NET API through webservices in Alfresco Archive

.NET API through webservices

cederic — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 10:13:33 GMT

HiI developped in .NET an API around the webservices that excist for alfresco. This can be used lik en rich clients , asp.net, silveright etc… .I can now do allready some feutures like. check in check out. Versioning of documents. Insert / download documents etc, . A file browser in .NET etc. And a

Re: .NET API through webservices

mrogers — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 10:24:11 GMT

I'm sure that there will be takers for your application. There are frequent questions here.

However
a) Alfresco recommends the use of WebScripts rather than WebServices.
b) You should probably be using CMIS for those types of operations. There are already Open Source Java projects in particular OpenCmis/Chemistry. The .Net equivalents will exist very soon, if not already.

Re: .NET API through webservices

cederic — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:10:36 GMT

I'm sure that there will be takers for your application. There are frequent questions here.

However
a) Alfresco recommends the use of WebScripts rather than WebServices.
b) You should probably be using CMIS for those types of operations. There are already Open Source Java projects in particular OpenCmis/Chemistry. The .Net equivalents will exist very soon, if not already.

Wel for point A.

Imagine that a user uses a scanner to scan a document on a client pc somewhere in the world. The client has a printdriver that prints(read: auto uploads) to alfresco . Something that we realised allready.
I don't think this is possible with webscript. Or am i wrong. I only saw webscript for presentation of content etc… .

for B
Isn't CMIS not a kinda webservice offcoarse I can implement it again to a very easy to use set … ?

Maybe i'll go for it en see where it goes

Re: .NET API through webservices

mrogers — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:59:12 GMT

Yes of course you can upload content via web script. Its a far better approach than sticking the content into an XML wrapper.