Alfresco and Coldfusion development

[tgmweb]

I've done loads of work integrating a coldfusion application with alfresco, so if anyone needs any help just ask

[prignony]

I'm quite interrested by your work,

What did you use to make them comunicate? Rest, ws, webscript?


Actually I'm also interrested to know what I should demo. I know how to use both but I don't see what I can do with them. We are trying to explain our customer why they should use alfresco in their current CF architecture.
Any Ideas?

[tgmweb]

Hi prignony,

Yes - we used the REST/Javascript API with everything done with a combination of CFHTTP and client side ajax.

We wrote a completely independent front end using Coldfusion with alfresco/share as the backend (i.e holding documents, objects, users etc. etc.)

We developed an intranet system, using CF to control the layout, session management etc. The benefit of this is that users still get access via WebDav, CIFS etc - but get a front end that can look whatever you want it to look like. It also enables you to separate the "web application" from the alfresco repository.

[prignony]

Thanks a lot for your answer, exaclty what I was after

We first used a custom java api with soap webservice support on alfresco side to access the repository with coldfusion. On the coldfusion side there was another api used to parse the xml and fill cfc object. A little bit like hibernate. Well it was working but not performant at all!

With the second version of alfresco an the third, I discovered web script It is perfect for what we need. But I don't like to close doors, that is why I asked what you were using