are there some news about content migration tool from AVM repository to DM repository?
Is it on the roadmap?

Fabio

Not directly. We believe it may be possible with an external authentication system such as CAS/Siteminder, and if so, those can use Alfresco’s “external” SSO authentication mode. https://wiki.jasig.org/display/CASUM/OpenID is one example.

The transfer service can be used to replicate content nodes from one Alfresco folder to another, and that folder can live on different Alfresco repository instances. If you choose to use Web Quick Start, the out-of-the-box setup is to have an “Editorial” site and a “Live” site. Content is authored, reviewed, and approved in the Editorial site, then published to the Live site. This gives you the ability to manage content separately from where it is being served up to the live site, including having separate front-ends to effectively preview content. Although the out-of-the-box setup has just these two, you can add as many additional environments as you want (Test, QA, etc.).

That explains how you can keep your content separated into different authoring, test, and production environments and move it amongst those environments. But in each environment, everyone collaborating on the content does so in the same space. Coordination is handled by using standard check-out/check-in constructs. So there is no per-user sandbox like there was in AVM.

Jeff

That is no longer the case in Alfresco 4. Those Surf site data objects are persisted elsewhere. In 4, you’ll still see the avm://sitestore, but it is empty.

Jeff

I would base your upgrade recommendation on the features and improvements in Alfresco 4 as well as other factors such as the amount of customizations you’ll need to test and so forth. The upgrade decision is really independent of the AVM announcement. Either way, as the announcement states, current customers will continue to be supported on AVM until the end-of-life for the version they are on is reached.

You can read more about the support lifecycle for specific releases here:
http://www.alfresco.com/services/subscription/technical-support/lifecycle/

Jeff

Sandboxes are the only thing I can think of not covered by a DM-based WCM solution like Web Quick Start. We do not have sandboxes on the roadmap that I know of.

Jeff

Share has a nice form service which is an effective replacement for web forms. And the nice thing is that the types you define are automatically accessible via CMIS, so you’ve got a standard API to query and retrieve content from the front-end.

Jeff