help please!

[soeursourire]

Hello!

I am new in alfresco and I have some questions:

- how the users' roles are defined: contributor, coordinator, Guest, Editor? Is it possible to add other roles?

- with which language is developped Alfresco? It is possible to use its opensource code right?

- do you know about ACL control in Alfresco?

- did you try already to import BPMN workflow in Alfresco?

- what is WebDav? is it working? If I do view in WebDav then I have error HTTP Status 500.

- is it possible to get information from alfresco in Java language?

Thanks for your help

[davidc]

Hello,

1. Please see http://www.alfresco.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=537 and http://www.alfresco.org/mediawiki/index.php/PermissionModelDefintionExample

2. Alfresco is developed in Java.  Use can use the open source code in accordance with http://www.alfresco.org/legal/license.txt.

3. Access control has been available since v1.1 - see http://www.alfresco.org/mediawiki/index.php/Security_and_Authentication

4. Not yet - this is planned for this year.

5. Yes - see http://www.alfresco.org/mediawiki/index.php/File_Server_Configuration#WebDAV_Server_Configuration

6. Yes - there are several APIs - see http://www.alfresco.org/mediawiki/index.php/Alfresco_Content_Management_Java_API

Hope this helps.

[soeursourire]

Thanks a lot. I think that will help me a lot. I will have a look now.

[soeursourire]

Hi!

"Playing" with Alfresco, other questions came to my mind. Please could you help me:

1. using Alfresco soft, if I add a user in a space called Users from Administration Console, does the user appear in the space Users afterwards because it is not my case?

2. what do you call ownable aspects?

3. is it better to use Tomcat or JBoss? Alfresco has been developped with which one at the begining?

4. where can I find the architecture of Alfresco's code? Where can I find classes graphs and hierarchy? If I want for example to find the java code that allows to store user data and roles, how can I find it in the source codes, where can I find the functions?

5. what are all languages used for developping Alfresco : J2EE, JDK, JSF..?

6. how Alfresco's object are defined?

Thanks in advance for your help

[davidc]

Hi,

I can answer some of your questions now…

1. The user won't appear in the Space.  Their home folder will if that's were you've specified its location.

2. ?

3. Depends on your platform requirements - Alfresco has been developed with both since the beginning.   For your own development and testing cycles you may find Tomcat easier.

4. What do you want to do / customise?

5. Not exactly sure what you're asking for but we primarily develop in Java, use JSF, Hibernate, Spring, MySQL, Lucene as the main building blocks.  We support JSR-168, JSR-170 plus others.  With Spring we can fit into all sorts of environments from standalone apps to full J2EE servers.  Via Web-Services we can support all sorts of clients - scripted, .NET etc. 

6. Again, not exactly sure what you're after.  You may want to look at http://www.alfresco.org/mediawiki/index.php/Data_Dictionary_Guide

[soeursourire]

Thanks a lot for your answer. Actually I would like to developp my own java application using alfresco classes. Please would you mind telling me how it is possible and how I can understand better the code? How does the code is classified? Is there some lib? etc.

Thanks in advance for your help