topic Re: Integrating Alfresco with a long running external service in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/integrating-alfresco-with-a-long-running-external-service/m-p/292239#M245369 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>The easiest solution is to use a webscript and a custom action.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><A href="http://ecmarchitect.com/alfresco-developer-series-tutorials/webscripts/tutorial/tutorial.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://ecmarchitect.com/alfresco-developer-series-tutorials/webscripts/tutorial/tutorial.html</A><BR /><A href="http://ecmarchitect.com/alfresco-developer-series-tutorials/actions/tutorial/tutorial.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://ecmarchitect.com/alfresco-developer-series-tutorials/actions/tutorial/tutorial.html</A><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The webscript can be implemented in javascript or Java. It depends on how complex it is: javascript is ok if you do not need too much logic.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The webscript will collect the passed parameters and configure the action.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>The action will be executed asynchronously. It can use all the libraries you want to access the remote server. Usually apache HttpClient is enough or you can use other libraries (for example an implementation of JAXRS).</SPAN><BR /></BODY></HTML> Wed, 06 Aug 2014 09:49:32 GMT marco_altieri 2014-08-06T09:49:32Z Integrating Alfresco with a long running external service https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/integrating-alfresco-with-a-long-running-external-service/m-p/292238#M245368 Please could someone advise on how to integrate Alfresco with another callable service.Here's the use case:1. Client of Alfresco shall call Alfresco to create a document on its behalf passing various parameters that shall be used to create the document and complete various values in it.2. Alfresco s Wed, 06 Aug 2014 05:38:53 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/integrating-alfresco-with-a-long-running-external-service/m-p/292238#M245368 adrianblakey 2014-08-06T05:38:53Z Re: Integrating Alfresco with a long running external service https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/integrating-alfresco-with-a-long-running-external-service/m-p/292239#M245369 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>The easiest solution is to use a webscript and a custom action.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><A href="http://ecmarchitect.com/alfresco-developer-series-tutorials/webscripts/tutorial/tutorial.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://ecmarchitect.com/alfresco-developer-series-tutorials/webscripts/tutorial/tutorial.html</A><BR /><A href="http://ecmarchitect.com/alfresco-developer-series-tutorials/actions/tutorial/tutorial.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://ecmarchitect.com/alfresco-developer-series-tutorials/actions/tutorial/tutorial.html</A><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The webscript can be implemented in javascript or Java. It depends on how complex it is: javascript is ok if you do not need too much logic.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The webscript will collect the passed parameters and configure the action.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>The action will be executed asynchronously. It can use all the libraries you want to access the remote server. Usually apache HttpClient is enough or you can use other libraries (for example an implementation of JAXRS).</SPAN><BR /></BODY></HTML> Wed, 06 Aug 2014 09:49:32 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/integrating-alfresco-with-a-long-running-external-service/m-p/292239#M245369 marco_altieri 2014-08-06T09:49:32Z Re: Integrating Alfresco with a long running external service https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/integrating-alfresco-with-a-long-running-external-service/m-p/292240#M245370 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Because it is a long running service, if you have a big throughput, it can be necessary to carefully configure a connection pool for HttpClient</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 06 Aug 2014 09:50:37 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/integrating-alfresco-with-a-long-running-external-service/m-p/292240#M245370 marco_altieri 2014-08-06T09:50:37Z