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The official documentation is at: http://docs.alfresco.com
Preview Release 5
This release is still an evaluation release and is not fully functional or intended for production use.
Important changes since Preview Release 4:
- Developer Guide and Wiki updated - developers please read!
- http://www.alfresco.org/mediawiki/index.php/Developer_Guide
- Public Alfresco service names have been renamed for consistency (AbcService etc.)
- Spring bean configuration files now follow the naming convention abc-context.xml
- First version of the Alfresco Web-Services API:
- http://www.alfresco.org/mediawiki/index.php/Alfresco_Content_Management_Web_Services
- Repository Java API tidy up and improvements:
- http://www.alfresco.org/resource/docs/java/repository-service-api/index.html
- Example PHP client for accessing repository via web-service interface
- see remote-api package in source distribution
- Included Eclipse 3.1 Project files with the Alfresco source code bundle
- Model XML split. The Alfresco content model has been split into several different files and namespaces. The data-dictionary services have been updated to reflect these changes:
- http://www.alfresco.org/mediawiki/index.php/Alfresco_Namespaces
- http://www.alfresco.org/mediawiki/index.php/Data_Dictionary_Guide
systemModel.xml – low level repository (implementation)
contentModel.xml – the content domain model (perhaps to be standardized one day)
applicationModel.xml – application specific constructs (services provided by application)
Namespaces (and common prefixes) are as follows:
- http://www.alfresco.org/model/system/1.0 (sys prefix)
- http://www.alfresco.org/model/content/1.0 (cm prefix)
- http://www.alfresco.org/model/application/1.0 (app prefix)
- WAR file name is now called alfresco.war
NOTE: If you deploy the war from source (rather than use a standard Alfresco installation package) then you must clear out the web-client stuff from your appservers before deploying the new WAR file:
Tomcat:
- Delete <tomcat-home>/webapps/web-client.war
- Delete <tomcat-home>/webapps/web-client
- Delete <tomcat-home>/work
JBoss:
- Delete <jboss-home>/server/default/deploy/web-client.war
Enhancements:
- Added a redirect JSP page in the root of the web app so you can now use a simple start URL in Tomcat:
- http://localhost:8080/alfresco
- Actions previously executable only through rules can now be executed directly on specific documents e.g. converting between formats and workflow
- Many more web-client screen settings moved to configuration files
- More repository settings moved to configuration files
- Additional I18N support for the web-client:
- framework improvements to support a different language per user logged into the client
- more strings moved to the messages properties file
- error messages string in the client can now be internationalised
- Advanced Search UI improvements
- Rule/Action framework improvements
- Support for additional mime-types
- Ordered associations now supported in the Repository
- Authentication added to upload/download content servlets
- Inline-editing now explicit and can be toggled for HTML documents
- Addition of the 'Content Managed by Alfresco' logo button to <page> tag output.
- All standard web-client JSPs will therefore include the button and text automatically.
- ExternalAccessServlet added to allow direct URL access to a few web-client screens
- Caching abstraction layer added to support different caching technologies
Fixes:
- System folders are no longer shown in the client UI or in the CIFS folder list
- Fixes to 3rd party libraries used to extract text from Word and Excel documents (no more exceptions)
- CIFS interface now working directly in Microsoft Word (CIFS mapped drives accessible from Word)
- CIFS interface stability and login issue improvements
- FTP interface support for additional common FTP list commands and other bug fixes and improvements
- Better error handling in the web-client wizards
- Many other minor bug fixes in both web-client and repo
- Performance improvements in both client and repo
Notes:
The graphics transformation as provided uses ImageMagick
- In the Windows bundles, a static executable imconvert.exe is included and needs to be placed somewhere in the path (e.g c:\windows) If you install ImageMagick separately, you will need to copy or rename the standard convert.exe to imconvert.exe - this is to avoid conflicts with the Windows convert command
- On Linux, you will need to install ImageMagick (http://www.imagemagick.org/script/binary-releases.php) and add a symbolic link, e.g 'ln -s convert imconvert'
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