Alfresco 3 Spaces in Alfresco 5

[martijnburger]

I am reading a book about Alfresco 3. In that book they are talking about Spaces as a central concept, it is defined as: Space is a folder with additional features, such as, security, business rules, workflow, notifications, local search capabilities, and special views.

I could not find anything about this in the Alfresco 5 documentation. Can someone explain what is the equivalent of Alfresco 3 Spaces in Alfresco 5 (is it a Site?) or does it stilll exist (as the SpacesStore implies) and where can I find the documentation for Spaces in Alfresco 5?

[mrogers]

The term comes from the early days of alfresco,  alfresco has "spaces",  windows has "folders", dos has "directories".  To all intents and purposes a "space" in alfresco is a synonym for a "folder".   In fact one of the core services is called the FileFolderService.   

There's a pedantic discussion about the difference to be had and perhaps it may be important some day as and when alfresco gets more "folder" types.   I will start the discussion by saying a folder in alfresco is a type of space.    Certainly everything displayed by Alfresco Share is a "folder".    There are likely to be one or two examples where there's a difference, however I can't think of an example so it's going to be obscure!