Open Source Talk

On September 14th twenty one of our European partners attended a conference to get advanced access to information on:

• Alfresco 1.4
• Alfresco Records Management
• Alfresco Web Content Management
• Alfresco Kofax Integration for Image Capture and Management

They saw presentations and demonstrations of the latest products and also heard about plans for:

• Support
• Training

This is what they had to say.

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In this Podcast I review the Alfresco 1.4 Preview Release with John Newton, Co-Founder and Chief Technical Officer of Alfresco.

Specifically we discuss:

• What was the major focus of the release - “The BPM Release”
• Expanding the Suite
• What have we used for Complex Workflow and why did we choose jBPM
• What advantages does this bring
• How we support document lifecycle management
• Service Oriented Auditing
• Dashboarding. Viewing tasks and personalizing the view of the repository
• Extending dashboard components
• Customizing views for each space
• Standards support for ODF and RSS
• How to download Alfresco 1.4 Preview Release and extra information

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In this Podcast I review Alfresco 1.3 with John Newton, Co-Founder and Chief Technical Officer of Alfresco.

Specifically we discuss:

• What were the major focus areas around 1.3?
• What was done to increase scalability and performance?
• The larger a system the more focus there is on administration. What has been done here?
• The other major area of focus was customization. This obviously affects the server and the client. What has been done here?
• CIFs is probably the most common interface to Alfresco. What work has been done on CIFS?
• Collaboration is a whole area in itself and the concept of SmartSpaces and email interaction is key to this. What has been done here?
• Other areas of interest.

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In this Podcast I discuss an introduction the Alfresco 2006 Roadmap with John Newton, Co-Founder and Chief Technical Officer of Alfresco.

Specifically we discuss:

• What are the main objectives for 2006?
• When some people say content management they mean Web Content Management. What is the focus here?
• ECM has many different definitions. What do you see as the big areas of ECM?
• When you look at those areas they are often a platform for developing content centric applications. What is our focus here?
• When you compare ECM to other areas of software is has been pretty devoid of core standards. There has been no SQL of content and I know we believe that that has stunted the growth of content management. What are the standards Alfresco is focusing on?
• Use of standards is one thing but users want standards and performance. One of things we focus on is “Production Ready Open Source”. What are we doing about Enterprise scalability?
• Collaboration is a key driver in the creation and capture of content. What features are we focusing on here?
• Administration of content management is very important, particularly in a highly-available or distributed configuration. What are we working in this area?

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In this Podcast I discuss an introduction to JSR-170 Level 2, in detail with Dave Caruana, the Chief Architect of Alfresco.

Dave is also on the JSR-283 committee and has a great depth of understanding on the subject.

Specifically we discuss:

• What is JSR-170 Level 2 and what are the goals behind it
• A quick review of what is a Workspace
• Adding, moving, copying and removing nodes
• Persistence within and between workspaces
• Managing attributes and properties
• Type management
• Type inheritance and constraints
• Namespace management
• XML Import and Export of system views and document views

We then review some questions posted after the last Podcast:

kun yong Says:
May 24th, 2006 at 4:29 am

• I am really interesting with this. How do I contribute to this?

qing xiao Says:
May 26th, 2006 at 7:18 pm

• It is great presentation! I am curious how the JCR APIs is exposed through alfresco remote APIs (i.e. web service)

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In this Podcast I discuss an introduction to JSR-170 Level 1, in detail with Dave Caruana, the Chief Architect of Alfresco.

Dave is also on the JSR-283 committee and has a great depth of understanding on the subject.

Specifically we discuss:

• What is JSR-170 Level 1 and what are the goals behind it
• Session Management - Initiating a Session
• Retrieval and Traversal of Nodes
• Node Types
• Querying a JSR 170 Repository - XPath and SQL
• Export to XML of a Repository - System View and Document View
• How to Find out More Information
• Alfresco forge for JSR-170 Contributions

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In this Podcast I discuss an introduction to JSR-170 with Dave Caruana, the Chief Architect of Alfresco. Dave is also on the JSR-283 committee and has a great depth of understanding on the subject. Specifically we discuss:

• What is JSR-170 and what are the goals behind it
• How does JSR-170 relate to standard features such as Folders, Documents, Containers and Relationships
• What levels of standards does JSR-170 have
• What is in level 1
• What is in level 2
• What is in the optional level
• What is JSR-283 and what are the key features of JSR-283
• What does Alfresco provide
• What are Alfresco’s plans for JSR-170/JCR support
• JSR-170 Developer Kit and samples
• Scalable JSR-170 support
• JSR-170 Roadmap
• Alfresco forge for JSR-170 Contributions

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In this podcast I discuss with Kevin Cochrane Web Content Management (WCM). Specifically we discuss:

• The key differences between WCM and ECM
• What’s wrong with ECM and WCM today
• Major Trends with WCM
• Why Open Source
• Plans for Alfresco WCM
• How to find out more information

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Here we discuss the ideas behind Alfresco and the vision going forwards. Specifically we talk about:

• Enterprise Content Management
• Applications of ECM
• The New End User for ECM
• Challenges for ECM
• Why Open Source?
• Why Open Source and ECM?

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