Surf Issue

[bineshbabu]

Hi everybody,
    i am new to alfresco and surf platform. I want to develop a website on alfresco  ECM. how can i? . i think i want to use surf to develop  web site on alfresco ECM. But according to the surf developer guide given in the  Alfresco wiki. i could not create a surf project using STS. i could not see any spring template project  for surf in STS. i think the roo add-on and surf plugin is not correctly work in new sts versions.
And the version of STS in all the tutorial of surf is not available to download.
                i am using STS 2.3.2 version . can anyone  help me to create a surf project using STS 2.3.2 or in STS 2.8

[ddraper]

Have a read of the following threads and let me know if you have any further questions:

https://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=40434
https://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=42779
https://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=42471

Basically the Wiki is out of date - you should ignore instructions to use STS and Roo.

Thanks,
Dave

[bineshbabu]

hi,
i understand the issue. but  i need to develop  a web application on "Alfresco ECM" like share. how can i . can i use jsp instead of surf?.
provided what should i need to do. is there any IDE to develop website on Alfresco ECM?

    please help me to create a new web applcation on Alfresco ECM . i mean a front end web site which use the alfresco content repository

[ddraper]

You're asking an incredibly broad question here which makes it very hard to answer. To write an a web application on Alfresco that is like Share you have many options (especially given the number of available APIs at your disposal with which to interface with the repository). For simplicity I would recommend that you either customize the existing Share application or create an entirely new application using Surf. You can use JSP with Surf if you'd like (Surf is merely a framework for other languages like JSP, WebScript, FreeMarker, PHP, etc).  I wouldn't recommend that you use Surf with WebScript though as that is what Share is written with which means that you'd be able to re-use Alfresco code if you wish and you'll have the confidence of knowing that the WebScript is exceptionally well tested with the Alfresco framework.

So your steps to achieving this would be to learn as much about the Surf framework and WebScripts as you can via the existing Wiki documentation, various blog posts, forum posts and books that are available - if you have specific questions then ask them here or on the WebScripts board of the forum.

Regards,
Dave