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Alfresco Explorer Upgrade

luisalves00 — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 15:14:06 GMT

Hello,will alfresco explorer be upgrade to JSF 2.0 using modern components like Richfaces and Primefaces? or everything will be rewritten on top of Share?best regards,LA

Re: Alfresco Explorer Upgrade

mikeh — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 16:19:59 GMT

There are currently no plans to refactor the Explorer client.

Thanks,
Mike

Re: Alfresco Explorer Upgrade

luisalves00 — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 16:59:10 GMT

Is there a reason for abandoning JSF?

best regards,
LA

Re: Alfresco Explorer Upgrade

mikeh — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 21:57:19 GMT

"Abandoned" is a bit strong; it'll still be supported. The feedback we've had is that customers and partners much prefer us to build APIs to enable remote clients to be built (of which Share is one) rather than tying everything in to one monolithic web application.

Thanks,
Mike

Re: Alfresco Explorer Upgrade

luisalves00 — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 08:23:16 GMT

But explorer is a good piece of software. Just lacks more use of Ajax an be skinnable (for branding reason). Maintaining both is a good idea.
All the other Alfresco clients that I know about, lack the support for workflow.

Re: Alfresco Explorer Upgrade

mikeh — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 14:51:44 GMT

Perhaps, but "maintaining" is very different to "refactoring". Again, our priority is on delivering the Repository as a platform rather than a product, hence the focus on APIs rather than UI.

Thanks,
Mike

Re: Alfresco Explorer Upgrade

luisalves00 — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 10:24:10 GMT

And by maintaining would you consider removing mootools in prol of jquery (respect other js libraries), allowing full support of richfaces?
many of Gavinc ajax components had to be replaced (category picker,etc..)…but I think it worth the effort.

richfaces would add easy Ajax support and cool components for a web 2.0 UI.

Re: Alfresco Explorer Upgrade

mikeh — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 12:52:08 GMT

I think you know the answer to that :wink: That's definitely "refactoring" rather than "maintaining".

Remember: Alfresco Community is 100% Open Source… if you contribute the changes to the product, you'll get full credit and help make the product better for the rest of the community.

Thanks,
Mike

Re: Alfresco Explorer Upgrade

luisalves00 — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 16:57:07 GMT

so…I must start learning how to use Surf Framework…