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Options seeing Alfresco repository from an external webapp

erennion — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:07:38 GMT

Hi everyone:I've deployed Alfresco 2.0 and Liferay 4.2.1 (both in the same Tomcat instance), and I expect to show a list of stored documents in a portlet, so I need to access the Alfresco repository from Liferay.I tried to retrieve the spring context bean manually (as it's explained in the Wiki's ex

Re: Options seeing Alfresco repository from an external webapp

derek — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 00:11:21 GMT

Hi,

The simplest will be to create your own service interface for the high-level functionality that you require. The current HEAD code has a simple standalone application that calls Alfresco using RMI-exported services.

From the build environment, run ant -f continuous.xml distribute-bm-remote to build the application. You can look at the target and the classes involved. The services are exported by an extension config file bm-remote-loader-context.xml.sample.

The idea is simple. You write a high-level service class that does the type of things your remote application needs and then export that service over RMI. You'll need a service interface, an implementation class and a config file to Spring it all up.

Regards

Re: Options seeing Alfresco repository from an external webapp

kevinr — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:18:02 GMT

Another way would be to use WebScripts and access list of documents etc. via HTTP API (even thought it's the same server, that's fine).
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Web_Scripts

Kevin