Architecture

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Contents 1 Core Support Frameworks 2 Repository 2.1 Service Framework 2.2 Core Services 2.3 Standard Interfaces 3 Web-Client 4 System Administration

[edit] Core Support Frameworks

• Spring - Spring is an application framework that includes AOP capabilities. See Cross Cutting Support.
• Hibernate - Hibernate is an object-relational mapping technology
• Lucene - Lucene is an enterprise-scale full-text and metadata search engine
• MyFaces - MyFaces is an implementation of Java Server Faces

[edit] Repository

Content oriented store and services.

[edit] Service Framework

• 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.
• Type Mechanism - Meta Data for describing Types (inheritance), properties, associations and behaviours
• Security and Authentication - A description of the security framework.

[edit] 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)
• Node Handles and Store Protocols - Approach for identifying Nodes and Stores within a Repository
• Versioning - Support a basic version and locking 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
• Actions and Rules - Provide services to allow actions to be executed manually and automatically, using rules, within a Repository.

[edit] Standard Interfaces

• Alfresco Content Management Java API - Public Alfresco Repostitory API (Java)
• Alfresco Content Management Web Services - Public Alfresco Repository API (Web Services)
• JSR-170 - Java Content Repository API (JCR)
• WebDAV - Support the WebDAV standard up to the level of Jakarta Slide 2.0

[edit] Web-Client

• Web-Client Framework - Use Spring and JSF to support the development of a portal based web-client framework and portlets
• Component Library - Library of JSF components required to build the client applications
• 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
• Firefox Extensions - Investigations into Browser Integration
• IE Add-Ons

[edit] 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