Alfresco 3 Web Services: Build Alfresco applications using Web Services, WebScripts and CMIS

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Build Alfresco applications using Web Services, WebScripts and CMIS Gain a comprehensive overview of the specifications of Web services Implement the Alfresco specific Web Services Get to grips with the Alfresco WebScripts and the Alfresco extensible RESTful API Manipulate contents in Alfresco using different operations and APIs Learn about the CMIS specification and its Alfresco implementation Hands-on approach with examples built over the course of the book In Detail Alfresco 3 is the leading open source enterprise content management system that offers powerful features for interacting with the content in its repository from outside the system. These include the support for the Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) implementation, reusable web scripts, and a Web Services API. This is the first book to show you how to use Web Services in Alfresco. Packed with examples, you'll learn how to build applications using Alfresco remote APIs based on SOAP and REST. You'll see how to use different APIs and bindings such as WebServices, WebScripts, and CMIS. Alfresco 3 Web Services starts off by showing you the services exposed by the Alfresco Web Services API, and how the API fits into the Alfresco software architecture.You learn to develop your application firstly by setting up and testing your Java development environment using the Alfresco SDK in Eclipse IDE and secondly by associating the Alfresco source code and Javadocs in Eclipse. With the help of real world practical examples, you learn how to do things like create, sort, and call Web Scripts, and invoke remote calls to Alfresco repository. To get the most from the Web Services API, you need to know about the basics of the Content Manipulation Language (CML), and the book takes you through this. Examples such as the bookshop application show you how to sign in, change user sessions, get, remove and change public and private associated contents, manage a cart for your e-commerce application, and so on.Next, by implementing a Microsoft .NET application using the Alfresco Web Services API, you see how to perform operations against the repository from your .NET application. The book provides you with REST and SOAP concepts, their comparison, basics of the FreeMarker language, Atom Publishing Protocol, JavaScript controllers, and the Apache Chemistry project. By the end of this book, you will be able to put together your knowledge about CMIS and the Apache Chemistry toolkit to develop a complete working application that uses Alfresco, via CMIS, as a back-end storage. Last but not the least, this book also covers the WebServices security profiles - the best practices for Web Services to promote better interoperability. A step-by-step guide to implementing the SOAP API, Web Scripts, and CMIS. What you will learn from this book Gain a comprehensive overview of the specifications of Web services Learn how to manipulate contents in Alfresco using different operations and APIs Build applications on top of Alfresco using Alfresco Web Services API Extend the Alfresco RESTful API using WebScripts Make your own different output renditions using FreeMarker Explore the CMIS specification with all the details about the Alfresco implementation Learn how to contact Alfresco with your client using one of the bindings of CMIS Make your CMIS integration more standard using the Apache Chemistry project Approach The book is a detailed guide to building integrations on top of Alfresco filled with tons of examples and sample code. It is intended to be a complete overview to help developers choose a specific API with related method invocations. Who this book is written for If you are a web developer who wants to build business applications on top of Alfresco, then this is the book for you. Basic understanding of XML, Web development concepts (HTTP, MVC) and Web Services is required.

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Ugo Cei is a solutions delivery manager at Sourcesense, Italy. He has over 20 years of experience in the IT sector. His areas of expertise include web application development, content management systems, database,and search technologies. He has a Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of Pavia, Italy. Ugo is a long-time active contributor to numerous open source projects and a member of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). Besides his interest in computer-related matters, Ugo is a passionate photographer. He sometimes dreams of leaving the IT field to pursue his passion full-time, and travel the world with a camera. Piergiorgio Lucidi is an open source product specialist and a certified Alfresco trainer at Sourcesense. Sourcesense is a European open source systems integrator providing consultancy, support, and services around key open source technologies. Piergiorgio has worked as a software engineer and developer for six years in the areas of Enterprise Content Management (ECM), system integrations, web and mobile applications. He is an expert in integrating ECM solutions in web and portal applications. He contributes to the Alfresco Community forum regularly supporting both newbies and expert users. Piergiorgio is a project leader and committer of the JBoss community and contributes to some of the projects around the portal platform. He is a speaker at the conferences dedicated to Java, Spring framework, and open source products and technologies. He is an affiliate partner at Packt Publishing, and writes and publishes book reviews on his website, Open4Dev. Table Of Contents Preface Chapter 1: Introducing the SOAP Web Services API Chapter 2: Creating and Modifying Content Chapter 3: Collaboration and Administration Chapter 4: A Complete Example Chapter 5: Using the Alfresco Web Services from .NET Chapter 6: Introducing the Web Scripts Framework Chapter 7: Templating with FreeMarker Chapter 8: Writing a Web Script Controller in JavaScript and Java Chapter 9: Putting it All Together Chapter 10: Overview of CMIS Chapter 11: The CMIS AtomPub Binding Chapter 12: Developing a CMIS Client using Apache Chemistry Chapter 13: The Web Services Binding Chapter 14: A Complete CMIS Client Application Appendix: The CMIS Query Language Index