[Update] Jeff’s Alfresco book is out. Go check it out.
My colleague Jeff Potts, Director of our ECM Practice at Optaros, has been working on a developer guide for Alfresco for quite some time. End of October he announced the publication of his book.
This book is a great tutorial for getting started with Alfresco. Here is what the publisher Packt says:
Alfresco is an open source platform for Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions. ECM includes things like Document Management, Web Content Management, Collaboration/Enterprise 2.0, Digital Asset Management, Records Management, and Imaging. At its core is a repository for rich content like documents, web assets, XML, and multimedia. The repository is surrounded by a services layer (supporting both SOAP and REST) that makes getting content into and out of the repository a breeze, which is why so many next generation Internet solutions are built on Alfresco.
Implementing Alfresco usually involves extending the repository to accommodate your business-specific metadata and business logic. These extensions are done using some combination of Java, JavaScript, XML, and FreeMarker.
This book takes you through a set of exercises as if you were rolling out and customizing the platform for a fictional organization called SomeCo, which wants to roll out Alfresco enterprise-wide. Each department has a set of requirements that need addressed. We will show you how to extend Alfresco to meet these requirements. By the time you’ve worked through the entire book, you will be familiar with the entire platform. You’ll be prepared to make your own customizations whether they are part of a Document Management solution, a web site that uses Alfresco for content storage, or an entire custom application built on Alfresco’s REST API.
This book will give you the knowledge and confidence you need to make Alfresco do what you need it to do.
Jeff’s blog post | Packt website | Review by CMS Report | Optaros website on the release
[Update] Missing in the first issue: Acknowledgements.
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