Alfresco Content Management Community Edition

Back in March I wrote about a prototype integration between Spring Surf and OpenCMIS. Spring Surf provides a scriptable approach to building web applications. OpenCMIS provides a Java client library for accessing any CMIS compliant content ... [More] repository. By combining the two, we create a development platform for building CMIS enabled web applications. Since that time, several enhancements have [...] Read More [Less]

Abstract: Funny little story about open source business models and trends: this story goes about the long time discussed and awaited Alfresco Confluence integration, and goes back of almost one year. Confluence is the Enterprise wiki solution ... [More] from Atlassian, while Alfresco…well I guess it does not need introductions on this blog [...] Read More [Less]

Back in February I wrote a post on Tunneling Debug and JMX with Alfresco.  Here are a few updates to that post: 0/ For JMX: From Alfresco 3.2 sp1 (enterprise release) on you no longer need to add the custom-core-services-context.xml file.  Instead in ... [More] the alfresco-global.properties file add monitor.rmi.services.port=50508 to set the static port. 1/ How can I [...] Read More [Less]

Part of my daily job at Alfresco is to suggest our customers and partners the best way to integrate and customize the extensible and open standards based Alfresco Content Platform. The open standard concept is indeed a very general one, as it embraces top down standards (i.e. when a committee of some form is created and [...] Read More

Take a look at this recorded webinar and learn all about What’s New in Alfresco Enterprise 3.3. See the great new features in this release, like in context editing, easier navigation, better look and feel and enhanced security.  You’ll also discover ... [More] how Alfresco 3.3 complies with CMIS 1.0 spec and provides integration with IBM Lotus [...] Read More [Less]

I have been receiving a steady stream of questions around Web Studio and enquiries around our strategy for future releases with regards to similar functionality, so thought it would be helpful to discuss the product focus. Read More

First off, thanks so much to my readers, clients, colleagues, and other friends in the community who have provided a wealth of support in terms of well-wishes and congratulations on the forming of my new company, Metaversant. Several people have ... [More] asked how things are going so here’s a brief update… Metaversant is up-and-running and I’m as [...] Read More [Less]

. . A couple weeks ago I implemented 2 web applications and a REST API for a new open sourced BPM / BPMN 2.0 engine named Activiti. Feel free to visit http://www.activiti.org where you may download the distribution (Apache licensed) and play around with it. The actual BPM engine is just a simple jar file having [...] Read More

By default, the Alfresco WCM UI allows an author to select a different workflow and even reconfigure it at submission time, as shown in the following screenshot: The obvious issue is that typically authors should not have the ability to influence the ... [More] approval process, which, after all, is intended to ensure that any content they submit [...] Read More [Less]

I read in CIO magazine about “Queens Speech adds to IT concerns about cuts” “Public sector IT professionals are increasingly worried that vital projects will be canned to meet budget cuts. IT suppliers, who earn annual revenues of £17 billion from ... [More] public sector contracts, are also expressing serious concerns over the government’s near [...] Read More [Less]