New java webscripts on Alfresco 5.0.2

[spilby]

Good afternoon,

with Alfresco 4.1.6 we had some java backed webscripts installed with these archives and paths:

1. my_webscript.post.desc.xml on /tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/templates/webscripts/org/alfresco/XXX/ path

<webscript>
  <shortname>…</shortname>
  <description>…</description>
  <url>/XXX/my_webscript</url>
  <authentication>user</authentication>
  <format default="json">argument</format>
  <family>Alfresco Java-Backed WebScripts</family>
</webscript>
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2. Java webscript classes on /tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes

3. And web-scripts-application-context.xml modified on /tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/org

with something like this:

    <bean id="webscript.org.alfresco.XXX.my_webscript.post" class="org.My_WebScript" parent="webscript">
     <property name="serviceRegistry" ref="ServiceRegistry"/>
     <property name="customProperties">
        <ref bean="global-properties"/>
     </property>
     <property name="alfrescoService" ref="alfrescoService"/>
  </bean>
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It worked ok, and now we try to migrate this webscripts on Alfresco 5.0.2 version, changing the placement to the new paths. But don't works.

We are doing this:

1. my_webscript.post.desc.xml on /tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/templates/webscripts/org/alfresco/XXX/ path

2. Java webscript classes on /tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/org/alfresco (the same that 4.1.6 version)

Until here all is ok?

And finally, the web-scripts-application-context.xml archive. It still exists on Alfresco 5.0?

First I put it on /tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/ but don't works. Then I read about the javadir-context.xml. In our case, my_webscript-context.xml, and I put this archive on /tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension with this code:

<beans>
  <bean id="webscript.org.my_webscript-context.post"
    class="org.My_WebScript" parent="webscript">
  <property name="repository" ref="repositoryHelper"/>
  </bean>
</beans>
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But no works, when I try to acces with the url http://IP/alfresco/service/XXX/my_webscript gives me a 404 Not Found.

Is the url ok? Someone can see an error on my configuration files? I can't find it \

Thanks!

Best regards

[mrogers]

Put your descriptor files in  /tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/templates/webscripts/org/alfresco/XXX

[muralidharand]

It looks like, there is a typo error in the path.

/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/<strong>extesion</strong>/templates/webscripts/org/alfresco/XXX
It should be,
/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/<strong>extension</strong>/templates/webscripts/org/alfresco/XXX

[angelborroy]

Try using Alfresco SDK for Alfresco 5: http://docs.alfresco.com/5.0/concepts/alfresco-sdk-intro.html

URL depends on XML descriptor. In my opinion, you should include it also on extension folder.

Maybe this http://ecmarchitect.com/alfresco-developer-series-tutorials/webscripts/tutorial/tutorial.html can help with Alfresco SDK and WebScripts.

[spilby]

Thanks Angel, these link help me a lot with the example explained in it.

The alfresco main paths are all ok, finally was a problem with my part of url path (that I had resumed in my question with XXX). I solve it and all works ok!

I resume it with a simple example (with A and B) if someone have the same problem:

1. Put your example.get.desc.xml, with an url

<url>/B/example</url>
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on:

/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/templates/webscripts/A/B/

2. Your example-context.xml, with a bean like

<bean id="webscript.A.B.example.get" class="org.ExampleWebscript">…</bean>
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on:

/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/example-context.xml

on the same place than model.xml

3. Classes on:

/tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/org/

And all works ok if you do it.


One question… If my java webscript needs some own jars, where you usually put it on alfresco? On which path?

[angelborroy]

By using AMP, dependency JARS are managed by deployment tool (which is very convenient).

If you want to use plain file dropping, you can use

/tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/lib‍

and

/tomcat/webapps/share/WEB-INF/lib‍