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Communication between Alfresco external Application

gerhardk — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 18:58:48 GMT

Hi!I'm new to this forum, and have a question relating communication between Alfresco and an external Application.The options for the direction "external Application"->"Alfresco" are clear, but for the other way i have no idea.My aim: I have a Type defined in Alfresco, with some Properties - thes

Re: Communication between Alfresco external Application

nikes — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 20:36:20 GMT

You can explore the "Custom Behavior" feature of Alfresco.

Based on some specific behavior with your custom property, you can make external system API calls.

Hope this helps.

-Nikesh

Re: Communication between Alfresco external Application

gerhardk — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 06:13:46 GMT

First of all thank you!

Doing this with behavours is clear.
But are there "out-of-the-box"-tools to do external calls? Or can this be done with "plain" -Java-RMI?

BR Gerhard

Re: Communication between Alfresco external Application

gerhardk — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 07:16:21 GMT

Hi there!

I found a solution for me.
As there is communication between two processes, i need some sort of "interprocesscommunication". if this should be done over network, and in Java, this can be done by e.g. Sockets, or RMI.
For this issue i did't find any "Alfresco-tools" - In this case Alfresco is the "client-part" and the external-Application the "server-part", so this one has to provide the needed functionality.

I hope this helps some other guys. so thank you for your help - i think this thread can be closed
BR Gerhard