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    Alfresco Architecture

    What is Content Management System?


    Different types of CMS
    Features of CMS
    Alfresco
    Alfresco Architecture
    Alfresco Web Architecture
    Components
    Alfresco Repository Foundation Services
    API Support
    What is Content Management
    System (CMS)?
    A Content Management System (CMS) is a computer application used to
    create, edit, manage, search and publish various kinds of digital media and
    electronic text.

    CMSs are frequently used for storing, controlling, versioning, and publishing
    industry-specific documentation such as news articles, operators' manuals,
    technical manuals, sales guides, and marketing brochures.

    The CMS may include following contents to be managed :


    Computer files
    Images
    Audio/Video files
    Electronic Documents
    Web Contents
    Alfresco
    What is Alfresco?

    Alfresco is an open source Enterprise Content Management system.

    It's primarily implemented in Java, suited to a number of environments


    including J2EE and brings together the best of other open source projects
    in order to provide a complete set of Content Management solutions.

    It is not tied to any particular web browser, operating system, application


    server or database.
    Alfresco
    Alfresco concentrates on content management in areas like

    Document Management
    Records Management
    Image Management
    Web Content Management
    Alfresco
    Ease on Alfresco use

    Deploys as a complete working content management application


    Runs like a typical web application
    ~ Application server
    ! User interface
    ! Repository
    ~ Persistent back-end
    ! Database
    ! File system
    ~ Any number of web browsers
    ! No client installation costs
    Alfresco
    Alfresco architecture :
    Based on Java platform (Version 1.5 onwards)

    Spring framework used for dependency injection & cross cutting aspects
    Security enforcement
    Multilingual functionalities on content and metadata.

    Alfresco has used OSS components and integrated them with Spring
    Full text indexing ~ Lucene
    database independence/persistence layer ~ Hibernate
    Web pages generation and navigation ~ JSF
    Document transformation, Meta data extraction ~ Imagic, Openoffice
    Templating ~ FreeMarker, XSLT
    Workflow ~ JBPM
    Scripting ~ Rhino Server Side JavaScript, PHP integration on Server
    side and client side
    Alfresco

    Alfresco Architecture :

    Internal API structure


    The API is structured around services
    Service = lowest API level you should interact with Node Service,
    FileFolder Service, Authentication Service.
    Alfresco
    Alfresco Web Architecture.
    Application server houses both the Alfresco Application & Alfresco
    Repository.

    Storage of data and content is provided by persistent back-ends such as a


    database or file system
    Alfresco Web Architecture

    Alfresco Web Architecture

    The Alfresco Repository provides a set of reusable cross-cutting Content


    Management services such as content storage, query, versioning and
    content transformation.

    These services may be utilized by multiple applications

    Support for
    DM - Document Management
    RM - Records Management
    WCM - Web Content Management
    ~ Currently only uses subset of repository services
    ~ Adds complex layering and versioning support for
    sophisticated web production
    Alfresco
    Alfresco Components - Spring Framework
    Alfresco Web Architecture

    Spring Framework

    The public interface point is the Alfresco Repository Foundation Services.


    Each service is exposed as a Java Interface to which a Repository client
    can bind and invoke without knowledge of its underlying implementation.
    implementation

    A Service Registry lists the available services. Behind services are the
    implementation of components. Each service and component is configured
    via the Spring framework in XML configuration or 'context' files.

    These services may be utilized by multiple applications

    o The configuration and binding of the Alfresco Repository Foundation


    Services are defined in the Spring file 'public-services-context.xml'

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    Alfresco Web Architecture

    'public-services-context.xml'

    <beans>
    <!-- Service Registry -->

    <bean id="ServiceRegistry"
    class="org.alfresco.repo.service.ServiceDescriptorRegistry" />.
    />

    <!-- Descriptor Service -->

    <bean id="DescriptorService"
    class="org.springframework.aop.framework.ProxyFactoryBean">
    <property name="proxyInterfaces">

    <value>org.alfresco.service.descriptor.DescriptorService</value>
    </property>.
    Alfresco Web Architecture

    Spring Framework

    ! Simplifies architecture implementation


    ! Core foundation of Alfresco architecture
    ! Components are
    Declaratively configured and bound together
    ! Spring AOP allows for
    No implementation pollution
    ! Resources are abstracted (e.g. Database)
    Alfresco Repository
    Foundation
    Key Foundation Services Services
    Alfresco Repository is responsible for the storage and retrieval of content

    The following 3 services makes the base:


    Node Service
    Content Service
    Search Service
    Alfresco Protocol stack
    Key Protocols roles.
    Alfresco Repository supports a variety of communication protocols
    The following 3 services makes the base:
    CIFS (Common Internet File System)
    WebDAV(Web based Distributed Authoring and Versioning)
    FTP
    Alfresco Embedded APIs
    Key API.
    Alfresco Repository provides the following APIs.
    Java Content Repository (JCR) API
    Web Services
    Application Architecture

    Existing components can be replaced


    Better implementation
    Better integration with existing
    environment
    No impact to clients
    Remove unnecessary features
    Lighter, possibly faster Alfresco

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