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A Developer’s Guide to Alfresco, Part 3

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Join Jeff Potts, Content Management Practice Lead at Optaros,

as he shows you Web scripts, Surf, and CMIS.

This is the final webinar in a 3-part series, from Jeff.

This webcast covers the following:

1. What is the Web Script Framework?
   - Alfresco RESTful API

   - Used to declare a URL, bind it to logic, and provide views

   - Deployed to repository or classpath

2. What is CMIS?
   - Inter-operability through standard SOAP and RESTful bindings

   - SQL-based query language for rich content repositories

   - A language-independent, repository-independent API for content mgmt

3. What is SURF?
   - Web app dev framework built on web scripts

   - Essentially web scripts ++

   - Built-in hooks for talking to Alfresco

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The Alfresco Surf Platform

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The Alfresco Surf platform is a lightweight User Interface development framework.

It comes with Alfresco 3.x, and is the core technology upon which Alfresco SHARE is built.

Surf interacts with Alfresco web scripts, but in addition gives developers many other options they can use for development, such as FreeMarker, JSP, or building their own custom renderers (e.g. PHP, Velocity).

In this introductory session, we take a look at the underpinnings of Surf platform, how it can be used to create dynamic sites, and take a look at a few examples of components built with Surf.

Who would be interested in learning about Alfresco Surf?

• Architects and Developers who are interested in creating rapid content-oriented solutions on top of Alfresco.
• Customers who have Alfresco deployed with a portal container, and are looking to simplify their environment.

Content will include:

• Overview of Surf Platform and problem it solves.
• Surf Page Dispatching Model
• Creating Surf Template Layouts and Components
• Accessing Remote Objects and Content

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ROI-Based Enterprise Content Management

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Enterprise Content Management systems have historically been viewed as an expense, a necessary evil to meet compliance standards, for example.

Rarely is ECM viewed as an opportunity to not only cut costs, but possibly to even add to the top line.

Peter Dartnell  lays out how he and his team, along with system integrator OA Solutions, tackled the  significant content management challenges that Alberta Seniors faced with its infrastructure.  All with dollars and cents in mind.

With a focus on improvement of system delivery, Alberta Seniors realized that Alfresco is a platform.  And thus, the most value could be extracted from it, even as they integrated it with other legacy systems.
This webinar is a , case study of how Alberta Seniors used Alfresco to deal with business challenges in our environment.  The examples Peter will cover include:

1 > Education Property Tax program

• Lots of manual data collected from seniors in the province every year.
• We were already imaging them, but we needed to set up a workflow. Alfresco was a solution.

2> Major challenge with our workforce retiring, and walking out of the door with all that knowledge.

• We built a Knowledge Management application on top of Alfresco.
• The user doesn’t know we’re using Alfresco.
  But we’re using lifecycle, web scripts… it’s all Alfresco.

Also:

• Hear about the importance and value of Alfresco being built on a REST architecture.
• Find out why mapping to a drive letter helps change management
• Get Peter’s take on how much focus should be on Records Management versus Document and Web Content Management.

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Create RESTful Alfresco APIs

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Alfresco Web scripts enable you to open up Alfresco, and make it accessible to other tools and applications.

In this webcast, you will learn how to:

• Provide the Alfresco repository with content services that are accessible from anywhere
  
• Query the repository, extract content, and alter the repository behavior
• Expose the repository for document management and web content management
• Provide customized search facilities
• You can even have dynamically delivered content that is managed by Alfresco’s Web Content Management functionality.

Join Richard Im in this webcast, in which Alfresco is used to create an API that is RESTful, allowing for scalable and cross-platform data and content exchange.

Oh, and without the need for any Java, .NET, or specialized programming skills.

• Learn when and why to use WebScripts (over other Alfresco APIs).
• Examine the top 3 Alfresco Developer Challenge Web Script entries.

Agenda:

• What is a Web Script?
• Common uses of Web Scripts
• Create a Web Script for UI components
• Create a Web Script for data retrieval
• In-depth sample

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