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Using Apache to load balance and clustering Alfresco Share with Hazelcast

This post assumes reasonable sys-admin Alfresco knowledge and assumes you are already familiar with setting up the Alfresco Repository in a cluster configuration and familiar configuring an Apache web-server instance. You should read the previous pos...

Fixing Object Identity in CMIS - Some Proposed Solutions

As mentioned in my last post, the CMIS TC has been working on the issue of version-independent object identity, and that work is being tracked as CMIS-731. At this point there are 2 basic proposals floating around (each with a number of variants), a...

Alfresco Community 4.2.d

I am very happy to announce another Alfresco Community release is planned for next week! This will be the Alfresco Community 4.2.d release and is based on the very latest 4.2 community code-line.Here are some of the exciting new features and improvem...

Metadata Embedding

What is Metadata Embedding?Extraction of metadata from binary files is a critical task for enterprise content and digital asset management systems. The information contained in those files can aid in searching, workflows, and user interface visualiza...

cmis:objectId - A Case of Mistaken Identity

It's ok to store cmisbjectId's in my CMIS client application, right?Ah such a simple question, yet hiding a plethora of probable pitfalls!Over the last couple of years I've encountered (and held myself!) the misconception that cmisbjectId's are basic...

Unit Testing Aikau

IntroductionIn my last blog post I revealed that 'Aikau' was the project name for the updates we've been making to our approach to developing Alfresco Share and I briefly mentioned that we had been working with Intern.io to develop a unit test framew...

HAProxy for Alfresco

Since this post was published there has been a HAProxy 1.5(.x) release version, so this post is now out of date.An updated post with the changes relevant to HAProxy 1.5 can be are here: https://www.alfresco.com/blogs/devops/?p=8----------------------...

Customizing Alfresco Share JavaScript Controllers

IntroductionIn the last blog I introduced extension module 'customizations' and demonstrated how they could be used to override an i18n properties file to change the label on the User Dashboard. In this post I'm going to be demonstrating how to chang...

Share Widget Framework Roundup from Alfresco Summit 2013

by Dave DraperIntroductionOver the last couple of weeks I've presented a couple of sessions at the Alfresco Summit conferences in Barcelona and Boston. The purpose of these sessions were to socialise the new framework that we're going to be taking fo...

CMIS Query Language (Talk)

The comment that there can only be one CONTAINS() predicate even with cmis-strict appears to be invalid with 4.1.3 and I assume newer versions of Alfresco.