I've been developping the model designer addons for share http://addons.alfresco.com/addons/alfresco-model-designer. I think such module could be provided in alfresco core and will help for cloud personalisation. I will be please to help for it.
Anyway I'm experimenting some issue deploying model and forms. Now DictionaryModelType.java allow to deploy model, but only incremental changes. Is there a plan to allow it to be more flexible ? There is also a lot of TODO in this file is there a plan to complete it? It will also be nice to have a way to draw back deploy error to the user Interface. As a way around I'm thinking to check first the model to find potential errors and display it before trying to deploy.
For forms, is there a way to allow to deploy share config files directly from the repository? It will be really nice! For now I have made a patch that allow to deploy config files from a directory on the filesystem. At startup share look for all configs files in this directory. I can make the same, looking for files in the repository but I not sure that it's a good solution to make a webscript call to the repository at share startup. Any idea on how to make that?
The bean is based on org.alfresco.repo.config.source.RepoUrlConfigSource in Repository project, that extends org.springframework.extensions.config.source.UrlConfigSource. Maybe you can use this also for Share configs.
