Communication between Alfresco external Application

[gerhardk]

Hi!
I'm new to this forum, and have a question relating communication between Alfresco and an external Application.
The options for the direction "external Application"->"Alfresco" are clear, but for the other way i have no idea.

My aim: I have a Type defined in Alfresco, with some Properties - these properties do the configuration of the external Application. These properties can change during runtime, so the application should be informed about these changes.
Which tools or options are possible for this concern? I found something like the "File System Transfer Reciever", but i am not sure if this is the right thing for this.

I apologize for my bad english, and hope you do understand the issue.
Thank you for your help!

BR Gerhard

[nikes]

You can explore the "Custom Behavior" feature of Alfresco.

Based on some specific behavior with your custom property, you can make external system API calls.

Hope this helps.

-Nikesh

[gerhardk]

First of all thank you!

Doing this with behavours is clear.
But are there "out-of-the-box"-tools to do external calls? Or can this be done with "plain" -Java-RMI?

BR Gerhard

[gerhardk]

Hi there!

I found a solution for me.
As there is communication between two processes, i need some sort of "interprocesscommunication". if this should be done over network, and in Java, this can be done by e.g. Sockets, or RMI.
For this issue i did't find any "Alfresco-tools" - In this case Alfresco is the "client-part" and the external-Application the "server-part", so this one has to provide the needed functionality.

I hope this helps some other guys. so thank you for your help - i think this thread can be closed
BR Gerhard