topic Re: Custom project in Alfresco Archive

Custom project

manuelgentile — Fri, 19 May 2006 11:50:11 GMT

I have to customize both repository and web-client project.I wonder if it's possible to create a new eclipse project containing these customization (like sdk projects) and have a build.xml that mix base version of alfresco repository and web client with these customization???Any example?I see sdk pr

Re: Custom project

jmliege — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 13:10:11 GMT

You may just copy your newly generated package(s) into either %TOMCAT_HOME%/shared/lib or either %TOMCAT_HOME%/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/lib folder regardings your customization (see wiki http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Packaging_And_Deploying_Extensions ), and then start/stop the alfresco Tomcat service.

Here's some idea of what to do with ant(remember it's just an idea…)

First copy your new stuff…(upon the provided 'package' target !!!)


<!– deploy customization –>
    <target name="deploy" depends="package">
      <!– copy all custom jsp to the webapp jsp/extension folder –>
      <copy todir="${custom.jsp.dir}">
         <fileset dir=".">
            <include name="**/*.jsp" />
         </fileset>
      </copy>
      
      <!– copy generated lib to folder. –>
      <!–
      <copy todir="${alfresco.lib.dir}" file="${package.file}"/> –>
      <copy todir="${tomcat.dir}/shared/lib" file="${package.file}" />
      <!– restart Alfresco web-client –>
      <antcall target="restartTomcatService" />
   </target>
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Here's a sample of how to start/stop the Tomcat service.
(Needed to do the previous "antcall" …)


<!– Restart alfresco-tomcat service –>
   <target name="restartTomcatService">
        <echo>shutdown Local tomcat service</echo>
        <exec dir="." executable="cmd">
           <arg line="/c net stop 'alfrescoTomcat'"/>       
        </exec>       
        <echo>startup Local tomcat service</echo>
        <exec dir="." executable="cmd">
           <arg line="/c net start 'alfrescoTomcat'"/>       
        </exec>               
   </target>
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Hope this may help you a bit.

For more information on how to use ant: http://ant.apache.org/manual/index.html

JMarc

Re: Custom project

davidc — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 13:23:46 GMT

You can have as many extensions as you like in a single Eclipse project. Just create a new Project that depends on the "SDK AlfrescoEmbedded" project for dependent jar files.

Repository extensions can be deployed to an existing Alfresco installation without the need to re-build Alfresco. Each SDK sample project provides an ant script for packaging your extensions. As pointed above you can copy the packaged .jar file to Tomcat.

Web Client extensions can be integrated into an existing Alfresco .war using the ant target integrate-extension as found in each of the Web Client SDK sample projects.