Content Services for the Web!What's new in 4.0?!

Brian Remmington Product Architect, Alfresco @brianremmington

In this session…!

•  Overview of Alfresco content services for the web!•  Introduction to the File Transfer Receiver!•  Introduction to Social Content Publishing!•  Q&A!

Alfresco Content Services for the Web

CMIS RESTful APIs Full Featured Integration CMIS

Use case: internal or external web-

based portal JSR-168

Use case: Public website or community site

Use case: Full Web Experience Management with flexible delivery tier

Use case: Home-grown web application in PHP, Spring MVC, Rails,

etc.

Alfresco Platform

Web Quick Start or other

Java Portal PHP Web Java WEM Custom App

Alfresco Content Services for the Web

RESTful APIs Full Featured Integration CMIS

Use case: internal or external web-

based portal JSR-168

Use case: Public website or community site

Use case: Full Web Experience Management with flexible delivery tier

Use case: Home-grown web application in PHP, Spring MVC, Rails,

etc.

Alfresco Platform

Web Quick Start or other

Java Portal PHP Web Java WEM Custom App

CMIS

Tomorrow  8:40am  Mo-vate  

Tomorrow  10:00am  Mo-vate  

Today  2:00pm  Mo-vate  

Tomorrow  3:10pm  Mo-vate  

Content Services for the Web!

Control Content •  The most flexible, standards-compliant, open workflow engine in the

world!•  Rock-solid versioning and access control!•  Flexible content modelling with complete link integrity built in!

Transform Content •  The Rendition Service can transform content from and to a huge

number of formats – both binary and text!•  Completely extensible to support custom transforms!

Publish Content •  Transfer content to remote Alfresco repositories and file systems!•  Publish content to external platforms: Flickr, YouTube, SlideShare,

etc!

Content Services for the Web!

Control Content •  The most flexible, standards-compliant, open workflow engine in the

world!•  Rock-solid versioning and access control!•  Flexible content modelling with complete link integrity built in!

Transform Content •  The Rendition Service can transform content from and to a huge

number of formats – both binary and text!•  Completely extensible to support custom transforms!

Publish Content •  Transfer content to remote Alfresco repositories and file systems!•  Publish content to external platforms: Flickr, YouTube, SlideShare,

etc!

Today  from  3:10pm  Imagine  

Today  5:10pm  Mo-vate  

Whatʼs new in 4.0?!

The File Transfer Receiver •  Enables content in your Alfresco repository to be transferred to a

remote file system using the Transfer Service!•  Supports “sync-mode” transfer, so can also be used by the

Replication Service to replicate folders!•  Packaged as a standalone component that wraps an embedded

Tomcat 7 instance and an embedded DerbyDB!•  Can be redeployed into an existing JEE web container if preferred!

     Alfresco      FTR  

HTTP

Seeing It Work!

File Transfer Receiver!

Configuration •  ftr-launcher.properties!

•  ftr.tomcat.baseDir=${user.dir}!•  ftr.tomcat.portNum=9090!

•  ftr-custom.properties!•  fileTransferReceiver.stagingDirectory=./ftr-staging!•  fileTransferReceiver.rootDirectory=./ftr-root!•  fileTransferReceiver.jdbcUrl=jdbc:derby:./

derbyDB;create=true;user=alfresco;password=alfresco!•  fileTransferReceiver.username=admin!•  fileTransferReceiver.password=admin!

•  ftr-custom-context.xml!•  Add / override Spring beans in here!

File Transfer Receiver!

Listening and reacting to transfers •  Implement org.alfresco.repo.transfer.fsr.TransferListener!•  Override the definition of the bean “fileTransferListeners”:

<bean id="fileTransferListeners" class="java.util.ArrayList"> <constructor-arg> <list> <bean class="com.example.transfer.MyTransferListener" /> </list> </constructor-arg> </bean>

•  Receive callbacks when files and folders are created, updated, deleted, and moved.

Whatʼs New in 4.0?!

Social Content Publishing •  Publish content from your document libraries to external content

delivery services: Flickr, YouTube, and SlideShare out-of-the-box!•  Automatically post status updates to announce your newly published

content: Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn out-of-the-box!•  Define and manage your publishing channels in Share!•  Create and register your own custom publishing channel types!

     Alfresco  

Seeing It Work!

Social Content Publishing!

Build your own channel types •  Designed as an extensible framework!•  Extend org.alfresco.repo.publishing.AbstractChannelType •  Use the six provided types as guides – these give examples of

OAuth1a, OAuth2, and proprietary authorisation and authentication schemes!

•  org.alfresco.repo.publishing.flickr.* •  org.alfresco.repo.publishing.facebook.* •  etc…!

•  A channel type may optionally support publishing content, posting status updates, and “unpublishing” content!

•  Your channel type and its icons are automatically picked up by Share!

Social Content Publishing!!

Accessing it programmatically •  Using the Java API!

•  ChannelService – manage channel types and channels!

•  PublishingService – create and discover publishing events!

•  Using the “publish-content” action (PublishContentActionExecuter)!•  Supports all the capabilities of the underlying publishing service including

scheduling, unpublishing, and posting status updates.!

•  Various properties can be specified, such as: “publish-channel-name” “status-update” “status-update-channel-names” “include-link-in-status-update” “scheduled-time”!

Questions?!

@brianremmington forums.alfresco.com