What is the best surf development configuration?

[ojaro]

Hi all,

Been spending my day getting frustrated with Surf. It seems like all documentation is badly out of date and tools such as Surf roo addon are badly out of date and therefore no longer work.

But I assume Surf is still very much being used since Alfresco itself it going strong?

Could someone advice what is the best way to go about a Surf development? People clearly cannot be using SpringSource Tool Suite/Roo route since that does not look like it has been maintained any longer. So what are people doing? Is the only way really to download Alfresco and start decoding the share application source code?

Sorry for so many questions. But have spent a day reading various documentations and they all seems to lead me to dead ends… Hopefully someone is able to share their knowledge on this.

Massive thanks already in advance,

Olli

[manideepan]

Hi,

Does anyone know whether i can use Spring STS 3.4 for surf project development? It doesn't seems to have the commands which are mentioned in the http://www.springsurf.org/sites/1.0.0-RC2/spring-surf-devtools/spring-surf-roo-addon/reference/html/... (surf install not supported). How do i presently develop surf applications to be used with Alfresco for content management?

Thanks,
Manideepan

[ddraper]

You should ignore anything on that web page and only refer to Alfresco documentation for Surf from now on (not that there's a great deal of it unfortunately)… as is mentioned previously in this thread, you should have no expectation of Roo or any other STS related working with Surf. It's now all been removed and only the core features remain.

Surf is still being actively developed, but is temporarily not in a public SVN after being removed from Spring Source… we're hoping to have the SVN source visible soon, although the latest source is committed in JARs to the Alfresco Community SVN.