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A Smaller Tomcat Docker Image

Because images should be small and secureIntroductionFor various reasons, at Alfresco, we are using Oracle JDK and CentOS for our base java image. On top of that we’ve ported the standard tomcat Dockerfile, to make a base tomcat image. Unlike the off...

How to integrate ADF log service with Mixpanel analytics service

Often after you have to build your app for a different reason you need to track it.The analytics collected can be used for multiple purposes:Track possible error in your softwareNew functionality engagementUnderstand how the user interacts with your ...

Building a Process Management App with ADF 2.0.0

IntroductionIn this article we will look at how you can use the Alfresco Process Services (APS) related ADF components to build a Process Management application. This could be useful if you are about to start on an ADF trial, you need to build a PoC ...

Legacy Source Code

Current Source Code LocationAlfresco maintains multiple source code repositories for different parts of our products. In general, public open source code lives in the Alfresco organization on GitHub, and private proprietary code is kept in our intern...

How To Add The New Sidenav Layout Component In Your ADF App

SIn the version 2.3.0 of ADF has been added a new Sidenav Layout Component : In the next version of the generator this component will be by default present in your new generated app, but what if you want to add it to your current application?In this ...

Activiti: Last week Dev Logs #48

Last week we merged into our Incubator repositorythe first and initial version of our standalone Task Service created by @MiguelRuizDev. Miguel is working on in this service while he is doing his internship here @Alfresco. We will iterate this servic...

Activiti: Last week Dev Logs #47

Last week we spend a lot of time refining examples and upgrading our infrastructure to leverage kubernetes services by using Spring Cloud Kubernetes projects. We started working on upgrading the BluePrint: Trending Topic campaigns in order to use the...

Using Alfresco 201804-EA in a simple PROD environment

There are great resources inside this Community on how to deploy Alfresco 6 using Docker Composehttps://community.alfresco.com/community/ecm/blog/2018/04/17/deploying-and-running-alfresco-content-services-60 Deploying using Docker Although some real ...

JJUG CCC 2018: Spring Cloud -> Docker -> Kubernetes

We (@daisuke_yoshimoand myself) presented our lessons learned about Spring Cloud, Docker and Kubernetes while designing, implementing and testing Activiti Cloud. <pictures coming soon>Here are the slides and the source code repositories to run the de...

Spring Cloud Kubernetes Example

Hi everyone, as part of the Activiti Cloudproject we have been testing our Cloud Native building blocks extensively into Kubernetes clusters. We started by using MiniKubeand that worked well for some time, but now we are moving to real clusters to do...

New Activiti.org website!

We are happy to announce the new website (www.activiti.org) for Activiti is now live.This new version has an updated look and feel that reflects our new cloud native approach to Business Automation. It is now hosted on GitHub so we can iteratively im...

Activiti: Last week Dev Logs #46

Last week we worked hard into moving forward our services and making sure that they can be deployed into an AWS Kubernetes Cluster and also a GCE Kubernetes Cluster. This will enable us to validate our examples and blueprints in a more consistent way...

ADF 2.4.0 Release Note

Alfresco Application Development Framework, version 2.4.0 Release NoteThese release notes provide information about the 2.4.0 release of the Alfresco Application Development Framework.This is the latest General Available release of the Application De...

Default memory allocation issue in Alfresco CE 201707 GA (aka 5.2)

Important notice for every Alfresco Community server using default installerIf you are using Alfresco 201707 GA and you used default installer (provided by BitRock), your Tomcat is using only 1 GB for your web applications (alfresco.war, share.war & ...

How to deploy ACS 6 Community in real envs using official Docker Compose

Alfresco is delivering a Docker Compose for ACS Community deployment that can only be used for local testing environments:acs-community-deployment/docker-compose at master · Alfresco/acs-community-deployment · GitHub In order to deploy the product in...

Submitting Contributions

The maturity of Alfresco products comes from the contributions of the open source community. Contributing back to Alfresco can be a bit confusing as Alfresco products are a collection of separate open source projects. Each open source project officia...

PDF rendering engine performance and fidelity comparison

A while ago, Alfresco decided to replace the Ghostscript engine in our products. It has been used as a rasteriser to transform PDF files to PNG images within Alfresco Content Services (ACS). The main cause was due to Ghostscript’s change to an AGPL l...

Activiti: Last week Dev Logs #45

Last week we kept pushing to get our initial version of the Applications Service into our Activiti Cloud Example. We currently have a new repository containing the core logic for this serviceand we are looking forward to test the initial version alon...

GeeCon '18: Lessons Learned - Spring Cloud in Activiti OSS

I had a great time in Krakow, Poland at GeeCon 18' the 10th edition of this highly recognised conference focused in Java. In general the conference was amazing, excellent venue, great weather, beautiful city great talks and an amazing Java Community....

Activiti: Last week Dev Logs #44

Last week we focused in closing Pull Request that were waiting for review and pushed the next iteration of the Process & Task Runtime APIs plus the Application Service integration with other components in the infrastructure. We also did a spike to bu...

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