1. Getting started with Alfresco Development
Gethin James - Senior Software Alfresco

2. What I'm going to talk about
Alfresco basic overview
New for developers in 4.2
The Alfresco One Restful Api
Using it
Adding to it (Yes, YOU can)

3. What I'm not going to talk about
Share widget library Share page creation live

4. Alfresco Overview

5. New in Share

6. New in 4.2 – Admin console

7. New in 4.2 – Database queries
In-transaction metadata query
“A subset of CMIS queries may be automatically executed against the database if they do not contain OR, CONTAINS(), SCORE() or IN_TREE(); nor refer to decimal, boolean or URI CMIS data types.” ALF-19126
Summit: Querying for Metadata, Andy Hind
Eventually Consistent

8. New in 4.2 Hybrid workflow Easy clustering Java @AlfrescoPublicApi
Rich media management and transformations api

9. Who likes choices? Webscripts Server-side JavaScript
IMAP, FTP, SharePoint protocol, CIFS

10. Photo Slide Folder, file, content and metadata manipulation and search
sites, people, comments, tags, favorites, workflow
JSON
Cloud first – now in 4.2
Image title

11. Public Api - Consistency
Structure:
Urls, http methods, response format – list, pagination, entry
Common error handling & responses
Querying:
Paging, filtering, where, orderBy
Cloud and Enterprise 4.2

12. CMIS Getting Started with CMIS, Jeff Potts
What's Coming in CMIS 1.1, Greg
Book: CMIS & Apache Chemistry in Action by Florian Müller, Jay Brown, and Jeff Potts
Apache Chemistry project

13. Api Urls

14. Public Api
Network Id Api Namespace Entity
mycompany.com
alfresco or
workflow
people
tags
networks

15. Public Api
/public/alfresco/versions/1/sites
Scope Version UniqueId UniqueId
public/alfresco/versions/1/sites
/{siteId}/members/{memberid}
Api Namespace Entity Relationship

16. Public Api – Using it
/nodes/{entityId}/tags /nodes/{entityId}/ratings /nodes/{entityId}/comments /sites /sites/{entityId} /sites/{entityId}/containers /sites/{entityId}/members /people/{entityId}/favorites /people/{entityId}/networks /people/{entityId}/sites /people/{entityId}/sites/<siteId> /people/{entityId}/preferences /people/{entityId}/activities /people/{entityId}/site-membership-requests /tags /networks/{entityId}

17. Documentation

18. Public Api – Demo summary
Consistent api across cloud & on-premise
Json based
RESTful, versioned
Easy to use

19. Public Api – Adding to it
Maven SDK

20. Public Api Framework Built on Webscripts Consistent No XML required
No FreeMarker, uses POJOs & Jackson
Uses annotations (nouns) and interfaces (verbs)
Write the Java, we'll handle the REST ™

21. Public Api – Source code

22. Summary Choices, choices, choices.
Scratched the service, ie. Data models
Use CMIS
Use the Maven SDK
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