Alfresco 3 Web Services -- Table of Contents -- Alfresco 3 Web Services -- Credits -- About the Authors -- About the Reviewers -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Introducing the SOAP Web Services API -- Web Services -- Web Services in Alfresco -- Introducing SOAP -- SOAP vs. REST -- The format of SOAP messages -- The Web Services Description Language -- Using Alfresco Web Services -- Using the Alfresco Web Services client SDK -- Setting up the Alfresco SDK -- Testing the Web Services client -- Summary -- 2. Creating and Modifying Content -- The Content Manipulation Language (CML) -- Setting up the Java classpath -- Using the precompiled client -- Using third-party frameworks -- Authentication -- Setting the endpoint address with a properties file -- Setting the endpoint address programmatically -- Performing operations on nodes -- Creating nodes -- Creating content -- Creating content using the content service -- Removing nodes -- Moving nodes -- Copying nodes -- Associations -- Adding child nodes -- Removing child nodes -- Versioning -- Updating nodes without versioning -- Getting the version history -- Aspects -- Adding aspects -- Removing aspects -- Searching the repository -- Performing Lucene queries -- Querying associated nodes -- Association -- Querying child nodes -- Querying parent nodes -- Summary -- 3. Collaboration and Administration -- Creating collaborative content -- Performing a check-out -- Check-in -- Check-in with versioning -- Check-in-importing external content -- Cancelling a check-out -- Managing versioning explicitly -- Creating a new version -- Deleting all the versions -- Getting the version history -- Reverting a version -- Managing locking explicitly -- Locking.

Unlocking -- Getting the lock status -- Classification and categories -- Getting classifications -- Describing a classification -- Getting categories -- Adding categories -- Getting child categories -- Authorization -- Setting owners -- Adding permissions -- Creating authorities -- Managing actions -- Getting action definitions -- Default actions -- Getting an action definition -- Executing actions -- Saving actions -- Getting actions -- Removing actions -- Managing rules -- Default Conditions -- Adding rules -- Managing users -- Adding users -- Deleting users -- Updating users -- Changing passwords -- Getting user information -- Searching users -- Summary -- 4. A Complete Example -- Setting up the project -- The Bookshop model -- Sign in page -- Home page -- Configure the bookshop repository -- Book details page -- Getting book properties -- Checking the cart space -- Getting all the associated reviews -- Adding a book to the cart -- Checking if the cart space exists -- Creating the cart space -- Adding a book in the cart -- Cart page -- Removing a book from the cart -- Adding a review -- Managing reviews page -- Accepting reviews -- Rejecting reviews -- Changing user details -- Summary -- 5. Using the Alfresco Web Services from .NET -- Setting up the project -- Testing the .NET sample client -- Searching the repository -- Performing operations -- Authentication -- CRUD operations -- Creating nodes -- Creating content -- Creating content using CML -- Creating content using ContentService -- Updating nodes -- Updating nodes without versioning -- Updating nodes with versioning -- Copying nodes -- Moving nodes -- Removing nodes -- Managing child associations -- Adding child nodes -- Removing child nodes -- Summary -- 6. Introducing the Web Scripts Framework -- A lightweight alternative to SOAP Web Services -- REST concepts -- Constraints -- Resources.

Representations -- REST in practice -- Use URLs to identify resources -- Use HTTP methods properly -- GET -- PUT -- DELETE -- POST -- Avoiding tight coupling -- Use hyperlinks to drive the application state -- Your first Web Script -- Components of a Web Script -- Creating your first Web Script -- Invoking your first Web Script -- Adding a controller -- The Model-View-Controller pattern -- URL matching -- Authentication -- Run as -- The Login service -- Transactions -- Requesting a specific format -- Status -- Configuring Web Scripts -- Cache control -- Deployment -- Summary -- 7. Templating with FreeMarker -- FreeMarker concepts -- Variable interpolation -- FreeMarker expressions -- Scalars -- Strings -- Booleans -- Numbers -- Dates -- Containers -- Hashes -- Sequences -- Collections -- Operators -- String operators -- Concatenation and interpolation -- Getting a single character -- Sequence operators -- Concatenation -- Slicing -- Hash operators -- Arithmetical operators -- Comparison operators -- Logical operators -- Missing values -- Specifying default values -- Testing for missing values -- Built-ins -- Built-ins for strings -- html, xhtml, xml -- js_string -- url -- trim -- Built-ins for dates -- string -- date, time, datetime -- Directives -- Assign -- If -- List -- Include -- Macro -- Nested content -- Macros with parameters -- Comments -- Using FreeMarker in Web Scripts -- The TemplateNode API -- Searching -- childrenByXPath -- childByNamePath -- childrenByLuceneSearch -- childrenBySavedSearch -- A simple example -- Generating an Atom Categories Document -- Atom -- The Alfresco Bookshop -- Categories in Atom -- Categories in Alfresco -- Creating the Web Script -- The descriptor -- The controller -- The template -- Using the Web Script -- Categories as JSON -- Summary -- 8. Writing a Web Script Controller in JavaScript and Java.

Providing a Web Script with a JavaScript controller -- Root objects -- General scripting techniques -- Importing scripts -- Logging -- Debugging -- Searching the repository -- Performing a simple Lucene search -- A primer on Lucene query syntax -- Fields in the Alfresco index -- Sorting results -- The ScriptNode API -- Properties of nodes -- Writing properties -- Navigating the repository -- Performing operations on nodes -- Creating new nodes -- Deleting nodes -- Copying and moving nodes -- Manipulating content -- A step-by-step example-posting reviews -- Requirements -- The protocol -- Representations -- Implementing the first version -- Extending the content model -- Configuring the Alfresco Explorer -- Creating the Web Script descriptor -- Creating the controller -- Finding the book -- Creating the review -- Setting the review's properties -- Returning the response -- Creating the template -- Testing the Web Script -- Using Atom -- Anatomy of an Atom entry -- A controller that accepts Atom entries -- Checking for duplicate reviews -- Finding duplicates -- The revised controller -- Writing Web Scripts in Java -- Types of Java-backed Web Scripts -- Declarative Web Scripts -- Wiring the class to the Web Script -- Posting reviews: The Java version -- Summary -- 9. Putting it All Together -- The Atom Publishing Protocol -- A bit of history -- Enter AtomPub -- AtomPub concepts -- Resources and entries -- Extensions -- Collections and feeds -- Paging -- The Service Document -- Creating resources -- Entry and media resources -- Updating resources -- Deleting resources -- Listing books by category -- Service URI -- Response format -- Implementing the service -- The descriptor -- The controller -- The template -- Testing the service -- Using curl -- A simple Java client -- Installing Abdera -- Creating a new book -- Service URI -- Request format.

Implementing the service -- The descriptor -- The controller -- The template -- Uploading content -- The descriptor -- The controller -- The template -- Testing the service -- Using curl -- A simple Java client -- Initial set-up -- Generating a random ISBN -- Setting up the entry -- Submitting the entry -- Uploading the content -- Updating an existing book -- The implementation -- Testing with curl -- Dealing with concurrent edits -- Implementation -- The Java client -- Deleting a book -- Testing deletion -- Summary -- 10. Overview of CMIS -- A bit of history -- A word of warning -- Objectives of CMIS -- What CMIS does not include -- CMIS vs. JCR -- The CMIS domain model -- Objects -- Documents -- Content streams -- Folders -- Relationships -- Policies -- Custom object types -- Properties -- Services -- Repository Services -- Navigation Services -- Object Services -- Multi-filing Services -- Discovery Services -- Versioning Services -- Relationship Services -- Policy Services -- ACL Services -- Capabilities -- Navigation capabilities -- Object capabilities -- Filing capabilities -- Versioning capabilities -- Query capabilities -- ACL capabilities -- Capabilities supported by Alfresco -- Protocol bindings -- The AtomPub binding -- The Web Services binding -- CMIS in action -- CMIS-enabled servers -- Alfresco -- Hosted CMIS AtomPub TCK -- The CMIS implementation in Alfresco -- Nuxeo -- eXo -- KnowledgeTree -- Sense/Net -- The closed-source world -- Client toolkits -- Apache Chemistry and OpenCMIS -- Drupal -- Summary -- 11. The CMIS AtomPub Binding -- The CMIS AtomPub binding -- Authenticating -- Getting the Service Document -- Collections -- Repository info and URI templates -- Navigating the repository -- Reading entries -- Reading type information -- Creating new objects -- Creating a new folder -- Creating a new document.

Updating a document's metadata.