Quick Writeup on Alfresco Web Scripting…
Dave Caruana has posted a little article that very succinctly outlines the ease by which new “web services” (in the non-SOAP sense) can be developed using our Web Scripts.
To that article, I add the following illustration, which I hope captures how Web Scripting implement a light-weight Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern:
With Web Scripts, the sky’s the limit as to the kinds of things you can do. Some ideas to get the creative juices flowing:
- Roll your own data API: Perhaps it uses a RESTful interface that returns JSON or XML
- Create a Mashup: Mashups are the Web 2.0 equivalent of “application integration”. Try integrating Alfresco into another app such as SugarCRM or even Drupal!
- Write a PHP or Ruby on Rails App: And have that app talk to Alfresco.
Here’s a screenshot of one of the new “widgets” that we’ve developed using Web Scripts:
Cool stuff, eh?
I’ll put up some more posts on the subject along with some “recipes” over the next few weeks.
In the meantime, Alfresco 2.1 Community is just about to come out the door so Happy Web Scripting!
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