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Alfresco One 5.x Developer???s Guide

You're reading from Alfresco One 5.x Developer???s Guide Discover what it means to be an expert developer by exploring the latest features available to you in Alfresco One 5.x

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787128163

Length 528 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Alfresco

Concepts

CMS

Authors (2):

Jeff Potts

Chevallereau

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Alfresco One 5.x Developer’s Guide - Second Edition

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Preface

1. The Alfresco Platform FREE CHAPTER

2. Getting Started with Alfresco

3. Working with Content Models

4. Handling Content Automatically with Actions, Behaviors, Transformers, and Extractors

5. Customizing Alfresco Share

6. Creating an Angular Application

7. Exposing Content through a RESTful API with Web Scripts

8. Advanced Workflow

9. Amazing Extensions

10. Security

Chapter 10. Security

This chapter is all about security from both an authentication and an authorization perspective. By the end of this chapter, you'll know how to configure Alfresco to authenticate against LDAP, how to set up Single Sign-On (SSO), and how to work with Alfresco's security services. Specifically, you are going to learn how to:

Install a basic OpenLDAP implementation
Configure Alfresco to authenticate against LDAP, including "chaining" LDAP with Alfresco authentication
Configure LDAP synchronization
Install and configure a popular open source SSO solution from JA-SIG called CAS
Establish SSO between Alfresco and two of Tomcat's sample servlets
Create users and groups with the Alfresco API
Understand the out-of-the-box permissions
Define a custom permission group or role, which you will then leverage to refactor how the SomeCo Web Enable/Disable links work

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Authors (2)

Jeff Potts

Jeff Potts

Jeff Potts is the founder of Metaversant Group, Inc., a consulting firm focused on content management, search, and workflow. Jeff brings over 20 years of Enterprise Content Management implementation experience to organizations of all sizes including the Fortune 500. Throughout his consulting career he has worked on a number of projects for clients across the media and entertainment, airline, consumer packaged goods, and retail sectors. Jeff began working with and blogging about Alfresco in November of 2005. In 2006 and 2007, he published a series of Alfresco tutorials and published them on his blog, ecmarchitect.com. That work, together with other Community activity in Alfresco's forum, Wiki site, and JIRA earned him Alfresco's 2007 Community Contributor of the Year Award. In the past, Mr. Potts has worked for Alfresco Software, Inc. as Chief Community Officer, Optaros as Senior Practice Director, and Hitachi Consulting as Vice President where he ran the ECM practice.

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Chevallereau

Chevallereau

Benjamin Chevallereau is a French software architect, based in London, who has been working on Alfresco projects for the last 8 years and Ephesoft projects for the last 3 years. He implemented solutions for small companies and global organizations in different domains such as transport, finance, and government. He has worked for different Alfresco-recognized partners in France, the UK, and USA, including Armedia LLC, Zaizi, Michelin / Wipro, and BlueXML. He is also one of the committers and PMC members of the Apache CMIS Chemistry project.

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