topic Re: alfresco 1.4 on liferay 4+ in Alfresco Archive

alfresco 1.4 on liferay 4+

simonmags — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 22:24:29 GMT

Hi, Are the previously posted instructions for deploying alfresco 1.3 onto an existing liferay server relevant when trying to install alfresco 1.4 to a liferay server? And can we use a newer version of liferay like 4.1.2 with alfresco 1.4 yet, I know therewas a problem with the myfaces package there

Re: alfresco 1.4 on liferay 4+

simonmags — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 22:40:52 GMT

slackers! :cry:

Re: alfresco 1.4 on liferay 4+

simonmags — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 03:19:40 GMT

what's with the no-replies thing, way slack!

Re: alfresco 1.4 on liferay 4+

unknown-user — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 16:15:31 GMT

I wonder, have you even bothered to try it yourself?

Re: alfresco 1.4 on liferay 4+

tamax — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:56:25 GMT

Hi,
I'm trying to do the same thing, integrating Alfresco 1.4 in Liferay 4.1.2, and actually, it works !!
Well, it works when I use the Alfresco Portlet bundled in LifeRay (follow this thread : http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/devzone/forums/message_boards/message/15698). But this portlet is quite useless, it acts like an iFrame an just displays the web client in a portlet, actually it's not my boss's point…
So now, next step, I need to integrate the Alfresco portlet in Liferay, and that's where the problems start !!
I followed these instructions
http://forums.alfresco.com/viewtopic.php?t=2925&highlight=liferay
and know, this is my situation :
Alfresco.war (1.4 unmodified) is deployed in my webapps tomcat folder (though Alfresco 1.4 is running on the same Tomcat instance as Liferay 4.1.2).
Now, I wonder what should I do ? I guess I have to deploy the modified war in LifeRay, but HotDeployment does not work (well I waited at least 10 minutes with no result), "classic" deployment (droping the modified war file in the deploy folder) works, but then I don't "see" the Alfresco portlet in LifeRay…
But if I do the last step and Alfresco is not installed (I mean the unmodified Alfresco.war is deleted from tomcat webapps folder), I see the portlet in LifeRay, but obviously it is empty because there is no Alfresco server running…
Does anybody know how can I deal with that ?
Thanks in advance,
Regards,

P.S.:sorry for my english, I hope you understood me…

Re: alfresco 1.4 on liferay 4+

tamax — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 12:32:04 GMT

Well, I think I get something interesting… The Alfresco portlet do work in Liferay but it looks like the Alfresco portlet bundled with Liferay (is it the same ???), I mean it's just an iFrame-like portlet, what you see is nothing but the alfresco web client in your portlet… To me there no real integration and this solution is not suitable for our business.

Anyway, I share the only solution that "works" in my case (still little bugs : no images in the portlet, due to this error I think : ERROR [transform.magick.AbstractImageMagickContentTransformer] ImageMagickContentTransformer not available: Failed to execute command: imconvert…)

WARNING : this is really not an elegant solution !! :

I deploy the modified version of Alfresco under a different name (let's say "Alfresco - portlet") in the liferay deploy folder. Start Tomcat to deploy it… Stop tomcat server, delete the WEB-INF folder of Alfresco Server (the UNmodified version) and replace it by the one deployed by liferay (the one situated in the "Alfresco - portlet" folder). Start tomcat again, have some errors, no images, but it "works" !!
I'm not going to improve this "solution" because I really don't know if I'm going the right way and, moreover, in the LifeRay RoadMap for next Release (coming soon…) it's written that Alfresco portlet integration will be enhanced…
But if anybody have a really functional solution, with a nice integration of Alfresco in Liferay, please post-it, I am still interested !!!

Regards,
Maxime.