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anukuls
anukuls

Reputation: 285

Alfresco as App development framework?

I was surfing the Internet where I found an article saying that Alfresco is a Content Management Framework as well as App Development Framework. While I understood it as Content Management Framework, I am not able to know about it as an App Development Framework.I tried researching over it, but could not find anything viable.

I want to know that how Alfresco can be used as an App Development Framework ?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 267

Answers (3)

magemello
magemello

Reputation: 1202

Hi Alfresco has an application development framework, more info here:

Some videos:

In case you want a live support you can use the Gitter channel: https://gitter.im/Alfresco/alfresco-ng2-components

Upvotes: 3

Dave Draper
Dave Draper

Reputation: 1845

If you want to build applications for Alfresco you have a number of options available to you - as mentioned you can build mobile applications (and there are SDKs available to do this).

If you want to build web applications then you have the option of either customizing the default Alfresco Share client (which is built on top of the Alfresco Surf framework using a combination of YUI 2 and Aikau). Alternatively you can built your own web client by building a new client with the Maven Aikau Archetype.

The advantage of the Surf framework is that it takes care of Alfresco authentication across all the various APIs (WebScript, CMIS, Public API, etc) as well as providing lots of security benefits (CSRF, XSS white-lists, etc).

The advantage of using Aikau is that it provides a large number of out-of-the-box widgets that are specifically designed to work with Alfresco data and address Alfresco (ECM) specific use cases.

You are of course not limited to these options - you can build an application on top of any stack you wish, but ultimately you will want to be making use of the REST APIs that the Alfresco Repository provides.

Depending upon the application you are building you may also want to build custom data models and build in workflow via Activiti BPM as well.

Upvotes: 2

abarisone
abarisone

Reputation: 3783

Well, if for App is meant mobile application, Alfresco has a Mobile SDK available for both iOS and Android which can help you create your own application to work against the Alfresco Platform.

Moreover there is another framework called Aikau which has one main goal

The main purpose of Aikau is to provide a library of widgets that can be easily assembled into a web application for accessing an Alfresco repository. The aim is not to replace Share but it was necessary to migrate away from its original implementation, which was based around the Surf paradigms of pages, templates, components and web scripts, towards a solution that provided for rapid development and customization.

This feature was first introduiced in Alfresco 4.2 and then extended in Alfresco 5.0

Upvotes: 3

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