Best option?

[nm_santos]

Hi everyone,

I'm a new user to the Alfresco Community and came across some doubts in my development.

I'm going to integrate an applet with Alfresco, i.e, it will submit/download files and use LDAP Authentication.

The thing is, I will also need a few things:

1. User interface so that they can see the documents uploaded.
2. Create folders, delete folders, folder permissions.
3. Exchange documents
4. Customize the theme and layout at my will.

So, I should use Alfresco Share as the end-user client instead of Alfresco Explorer?

[billerby]

I would go with the Share Client. Since theming is not possible of the explorer client and since it is not being acitvly developed anymore I can't see any reason to go with it.

[nm_santos]

I would go with the Share Client. Since theming is not possible of the explorer client and since it is not being acitvly developed anymore I can't see any reason to go with it.

Thanks! Will do.

I've been trying some samples that came with alfresco, namely the Web Service Samples.

If I access the repository section in Share I know I can see the documents uploaded through the Web Service API. Also, I didn't find how to upload a document directly to a collaboration site. Is there an API for that? (From a remote java application)

My question is, what is the best practice between using only the repository for collaboration, or creating a collaboration site?

I'm asking this because, for example, the users will need be able to create public and private folders and it seems much easier doing it through the repository.

Is it a good or bad practice going this road of thinking?

Cheers,
Nuno.