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Complex Web App with Alfresco?

nigma
Champ in-the-making
Champ in-the-making
I'm looking to create a web application for a small business that can handle forms creation, accounting/billing, records management, and user management.

I was thinking I'd use Drupal as the front end, with Alfresco as the repository and Java for the guts.  I do have experience building websites, as well as C++ training from college, but I'm at a loss when it comes to development of actual real-world applications.

So my question is: Is this feasible?  I was hoping to use these three in combination because I'd be working on this myself and would like to work in an environment where I can modify code to work for me instead of starting from scratch.  But can anyone tell me whether this would result in an application too slow to be used in production environments?

As a side note, employees would have to be able to log in to the web server wherever they are.  I'm aware that all of this would require a massive amount of work, but I'm in no hurry.  I'm looking forward to learning web programming.

Any help is appreciated.
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mrogers
Star Contributor
Star Contributor
Yes its entirely feasible.

nigma
Champ in-the-making
Champ in-the-making
Thanks.

Could you say whether or not this combination would make the application much harder to construct?  I'm currently going off the assumption that having things pre-built would shorten time.  The commercial application I'm trying to eventually replace actually seems to be running off of ColdFusion (perhaps with another language in the background?).

mrogers
Star Contributor
Star Contributor
I don't know about Drupal. :mrgreen:  But the combination of some sort of a front end web tool with alfresco as a back end repository is a tried and tested solution.   There are many, many web apps out there that take exactly that approach.