Alfresco

Alfresco is the Open Source Alternative for Enterprise Content Management (ECM), providing Document Management, Collaboration, Records Management, Knowledge Management, Web Content Management and Imaging.

Its modular architecture uses the latest open src Java technologies: Spring, Hibernate, Lucene and JSF.

Alfresco ECMS 2.0 Released now under GPL

目前版本： v2.0

Alfresco v3.0

• REST-based API. We anticipate that there will be new content management standards that will be REST based in this time frame.
• JSR-283. We will implement some of the first features of JSR-283 (JCR 2.0) in this release.
• SQL-based Query Language. With this standard will be new REST API interfaces and new language definitions that we expect to be SQL based. We may provide this type of capability sooner through more of a JCR-style of interface.
• Replication. We will be extending our distributed capabilities with more enhancements to our federated search and multi-directional replication for geographic distribution.
• System Administration. We will also provide additional system administration capabilities that are more autonomic.
• Architecture Refactoring. We will also refactor portions of the architecture and replace components that have better alternatives or limit our license flexibility.

from http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Roadmap

Alfresco v2.1

• Web 2.0 组件。通过其他应用程序整合，Web 客户端被模块化为 Web 2.0组件。
• Office 插件。这次发布中还包含一个应用新 Web 2.0组件的例子，位于微软Office任务面板里，以预览形式提供。
• Web 客户端扩展。在 Web 客户端里，通过新的联合搜索、多语言支持和表单等功能，用户的交互性将得到增强。
• 扩展 WCM。WCM 将会增加新的工具，简化页面布置、站点管理、配置和可能出现的依赖管理。
• Wiki。通过和其他开源项目更多的合作，我们期望在这次能提供大家翘首以盼的 Wiki 功能。
• 当档案库的数据达到五千万条时，性能依然是个重点。
• Alfrresco 网络。为了方便建议、信息和配置，我们也在企业客户端整合了一些新的网络特性。那些特性的源代码是开放的，但是传递的信息只提供给那些购买企业支持和服务的用户。
• 100% Web服务。从前因为看不到能为客户带来什么价值，所有的 Web 服务都被停掉了。但现在，在将系统的功能分散到不同的服务器上时，我们需要它们来提供更多的选择。
• OpenID。现在我们在考虑以认证协议形式增加 OpenID。它允许用户在多个站点上可以单点登录访问 Alfresco，比如 AOL，甚至Wikipedia 等。但是否支持 CIFS，还有待研究。

来源: http://www.infoq.com/cn/news/2007/03/alfresco-2

Features

• GPL with FLOSS exception
• Web Content Managment 1.0 with:
• Web Project Wizard
• Forms Management Wizard
• Website Development and Staging
• XML Content Authoring
• FreeMarker, XSL and XSL-FO transformations
• Virtualization and In-Context Preview
• Workflow for change sets
• Federated Search
• OpenSearch support
• Add-on Module Management
• Tree Navigation (AJAX)
• Multilingual Services

Technologies

• Java
• Spring Aspect-Oriented Framework
• ACEGI – Aspect-Oriented Security Framework
• MyFaces JSF Implementation
• Hibernate ORM Persistence
• Lucene Text Search Engine
• JLAN
• POI File Format Conversion
• PDFBox – PDF Conversion
• OpenOffice
• jBPM
• Rhino JavaScript engine

Portal

• Liferay
• JBoss Portal
• JSR-168

Supported Interfaces

• CIFS/SMB Microsoft File Share Protocol
• JSR-168 Portlet Specification
• JSR-127 Java Server Faces
• FTP
• WebDAV
• Web Services
• REST

Install

get http://download.huihoo.com/application/cms-portal/alfresco/
vi alfresco.sh
APPSERVER=/usr/local/alfresco/tomcat
cd alfresco/extras/databases/mysql
mysql -u root -p <db_setup.sql
cd tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension
rm custom-db-and-data-context.xml custom-db-connection.properties 
custom-hibernate-dialect.properties 

openoffice

rename alfresco/zstart_oo.sh' to '/alfresco/start_oo.sh
Edit '/opt/alfresco/start_oo.sh' and set the correct location for OpenOffice

start or stop

./alfresco.sh start
http://localhost:8080/alfresco
admin/admin
./alfresco.sh stop

Links

• http://www.alfresco.com/
• http://forge.alfresco.com/
• http://wiki.alfresco.com/
• Alfresco SpikeIgnited Solution - http://www.spikesource.com/solutions/alfrescocms.html

Screenshots

Managing User Preferences

Alfresco Dashboard

Secure browsing through spaces