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Functionality Targets
This is the first release to the community and the basis upon which we build the community. We are targeting that the development of this release will last no more than 4 months. It is important to demonstrate ease of use, organization and architecture. Additional functionality can be implied either through stubs, sandbox implementations or road map.
Repository
Content oriented store and services.
Core Services
Workspaces - Supporting the notion of the JSR-170 workspace
Node Service - Node, Property and Association management including CRUD and Persistence
Content Service - Storage and retrieval of content (text/binary)
Versioning - Support a basic version model, but potentially use Subversion or comply with JSR-170 Level 2 (Optional)
Search - Support search in a Google-style search and JSR-170 XPath search
Search Documentation - A description of the search syntax
Classification - Provide hierarchical classifications and the old enum support
Cross Cutting Support
Service Interface Standards - Some help to ensure that the public API is consistent
Services Framework - Architectural pattern for representing service, aspect and content type specific behaviour.
Node Handles and Store Protocols - Approach for identifying Nodes and Stores within a Repository
Type Mechanism - Meta Data for describing Types (inheritance), properties, associations and behaviours
Security and Authentication - Use ACEGI to support basic authentication and some level of ACL support
Standard Interfaces
Alfresco Content Management Java API - Alfresco public Content Repository API
JSR-170 - Support the Java Content Repository API (JCR)
WebDAV - Support the WebDAV standard up to the level of Jakarta Slide 2.0
Issues (outstanding specifications)
RepoI18N - Support for I18N in the Repository (Node values?, Data Dictionary labels)
Services
Extensions to the core set of services provided by the repository
Auto-classification - Automatically classify content as it enters the repository
Auto-summarization - Add a summary of textual content
Auto-format - Transform content upon entry in repository by applying a specific format transformation (e.g. transform a word document into HTML applying a specific style sheet)
Web-Client
Web-Client Framework - Use Spring and JSF to support the development of a portal based web-client framework and portlets
Desktop Integration Options - Investigation of Desktop Integration options
Space User Application - Full application client for managing and using Spaces
API Integration Issues - Page to discuss and note issues that the web-client team is having with the service APIs
System Administration
User Interface Design - Start with the end user (not terribly sophisticated) before designing the API
Components - Create interfaces for Types, Users, ACLS, Stores, Workflows, Links...
SysAdmin API - A JMX-based API for managing system objects in the repository
