Are client APIs backward compatible?

[jc]

Are the Alfresco client APIs backward compatible to pre 1.5 JDKs? We're planning to use WebSphere Portal with JDK 1.4.2, and were concerned about the client APIs requiring a more recent version.
Thank you.

[kevinr]

I don't believe they are. Somebody did do a conversion of the web-services client API Jar to 1.4 but it got lost during a server harddisk crash. If somebody still has a copy please upload it and we'll put it into JIRA.

Thanks,

Kevin

[kevinr]

Now available here:
http://issues.alfresco.com/browse/AR-590
http://issues.alfresco.com/secure/attachment/10762/alfresco-web-service-client-jdk14.jar

[jc]

I am a little confused about why a web services client API would need to be re-implemented in 1.4 since web service clients could well be using a different JDK version or even platform.

Please clarify that since my next question was going to be "Is the entire API (full funcitonality) exposed as web services so our JDK 1.4 system can use web services?".

Thanks,
Javeed

[jc]

Thanks Kevin.

Does the web service client API (in particular the converted JDK 1.4 version) fully support querying and retrieval for both documents and WCM content? I am still learning about Alfresco and am not sure if the API is common to both documents and WCM content?

Thanks,
Javeed

[rwetherall]

Hi,

The web service API does a normal Lucene search query behind the scenes.  It's my understand that, as from 2.1, you can search a WCM staging store so executing this search via the web service API should work.

It's defiantly worth a try, lets us know how you get on.

Cheers,
Roy