Alfresco Community 2.0 Preview available

[paulhh]

We would like to announce that the V2.0 Community Preview Release of Alfresco is now available.  This release introduces a number of new features, including:

- Web Content Managment 1.0 with:
   
- Web Project Wizard
        - Forms Management Wizard
        - Website Development and Staging
        - XML Content Authoring
        - FreeMarker, XSL and XSL-FO transformations
        - Virtualization and In-Context Preview
        - Workflow for change sets

    - Federated Search (not complete in preview)
    - OpenSearch support
    - Add-on Module Managment (not complete in preview)
    - Tree Navigation (AJAX)
    - Multilingual Services

The default configuration for all the bundles is HSQL.  There are instructions that can be found after installation that explain how to easily revert to MySQL.

The installer bundles have more configuration options for selecting which type of database you wish to use, and locations for storing content and indexes.

The open source version is available to download at: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=143373

Release notes for V2.0 can be found in our wiki here: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Release_2.0

Please see http://www.alfresco.com if you are interested in the Enterprise Network edition.

Thank you again for your continued support,

The Alfresco Team.

IMPORTANT NOTE: It seems to take at least 24 hours for SourceForge to update its mirrors for the downloads to become available!

[kgeis]

The default configuration for all the bundles is HSQL. There are instructions that can be found after installation that explain how to easily revert to MySQL.

I just downloaded it, and the configuration in repository.properties and hibernate-cfg.properties is for MySQL.  :?

[michaelh]

Hi,

I just downloaded it, and the configuration in repository.properties and hibernate-cfg.properties is for MySQL.  :?

Can you please tell us which bundle you downloaded ?

Thanks in advance,

M

[paulhh]

The overrides (e.g. in tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension) set it for HSQL.  Within the WAR file, the settings are for MySQL (but you're best overriding rather than editng these).  If you use the WAR bundle and don't put the extension directory in the classpath, then it will be configured for MySQL.

If you use the installer, it asks which type DB you want to use, and put the appropriate override in place.

Cheers
Paul.

[kgeis]

Hi,

I just downloaded it, and the configuration in repository.properties and hibernate-cfg.properties is for MySQL.  :?

Can you please tell us which bundle you downloaded ?

I downloaded alfresco-community-war-2.0.0Preview.zip.  Paul clarifies that I got the expected behavior, but the original post was a bit misleading.

[aznk]

configuring online editing such as open/save a word document on the server by configuring <edit-link-type>webdav</edit-link-type> (from "http" to "webdav") used to work in alfresco community 1.4 but it has no effect in preview 2.0, what's the point ?

[paulhh]

There's a couple of minor packaging issues with the bundles that affects the running of some WCM features.  These bundles are being updated and uploaded again.

If you have already downloaded bundles before the 23rd, you can fix this by checking the following.

Tomcat only:
Xalan jars need to be in the tomcat/common/endorsed directory.  If not, download the xalanJars.zip file and add them.

All Linux bundles:
The alfvirtual.sh script should start virtual-tomcat and not OpenOffice.  It's contents should be as below (/opt/alfresco path should be set to wherever Alfresco is installed).
— Linux tar.gz bundles
#!/bin/sh
# Start or stop Alfresco server
# Set the following to where Tomcat is installed
APPSERVER=/opt/alfresco/virtual-tomcat
# Set any default JVM values
#
if [ "$1" = "start" ]; then
  "$APPSERVER"/bin/startup.sh
elif [ "$1" = "stop" ]; then
  "$APPSERVER"/bin/shutdown.sh
fi
— Linux Installer
#!/bin/sh
# Start or stop Alfresco server
# Set the following to where Tomcat is installed
ALF_HOME=/opt/alfresco
cd "$ALF_HOME"
APPSERVER="$ALF_HOME"/virtual-tomcat
export JAVA_HOME="$ALF_HOME"/java
# Set any default JVM values
#
if [ "$1" = "start" ]; then
  "$APPSERVER"/bin/startup.sh
elif [ "$1" = "stop" ]; then
  "$APPSERVER"/bin/shutdown.sh
fi
—

Linux Installer bundle:
There are 2 files missing that call the alfvirtual.sh script.  These just need to be created with the content below (with install path substituted).
— virtual_start.sh —
#!/bin/sh

sh /opt/alfresco/alfvirtual.sh start
— virtual_stop.sh —
#!/bin/sh

sh /opt/alfresco/alfvirtual.sh stop
—

[aznk]

I've been adding those jars but it doesn't change anything…
serializer.jar
xalan.jar
xalansamples.jar
xercesImpl.jar
xml-apis.jar
xsltcapplet.jar
xsltcbrazil.jar
xsltcejb.jar
xsltcservlet.jar

[ribz33]

I want to try to create website.
Is there somewhere where we can find example of xml schema and template ?

i had downloaded war and in wcm i have only a .war

[paulhh]

Hi

In the WAR bundle there is an extras/wcm directory with sample web site and forms.

Cheers
Paul.