Alfresco Cookbook Over 70 recipes for implementing the most important functionalities of Alfresco Snig Bhaumik BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI Alfresco Cookbook Copyright © 2011 Packt Publishing All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles or reviews Every effort has been made in the preparation of this book to ensure the accuracy of the information presented However, the information contained in this book is sold without warranty, either express or implied Neither the author, nor Packt Publishing, and its dealers and distributors will be held liable for any damages caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by this book Packt Publishing has endeavored to provide trademark information about all of the companies and products mentioned in this book by the appropriate use of capitals However, Packt Publishing cannot guarantee the accuracy of this information First published: July 2011 Production Reference: 1180711 Published by Packt Publishing Ltd 32 Lincoln Road Olton Birmingham, B27 6PA, UK ISBN 978-1-849511-08-7 www.packtpub.com Cover Image by Duraid Fatouhi (duraidfatouhi@yahoo.com) Credits Author Snig Bhaumik Reviewers Piergiorgio Lucidi Project Coordinator Shubhanjan Chatterjee Proofreader Mario Cecere Adit Patel Khazret Sapenov Snehal Shah Acquisition Editor Steven Wilding Development Editor Alina Lewis Technical Editor Gauri Iyer Copy Editor Leonard D'Silva Indexer Tejal Daruwale Graphics Nilesh.R.Mohite Production Coordinators Adline Swetha Jesuthas Arvindkumar Gupta Cover Work Adline Swetha Jesuthas Arvindkumar Gupta About the Author Snig Bhaumik is the Technical Director at InfoAxon Technologies Ltd, based in India He is also the Director of Open Source Innovation and heads the Knowledge Management Practice at InfoAxon – India's first and pioneer Open Source Integration Company A computer engineer by education and developer at heart, Snigdhendu has in total ten years of experience in various technologies such as Alfresco, Liferay, Pentaho, and Microsoft NET An open source enthusiast and regular community participant, Snigdhendu was the original contributor of Alfresco Calendar component He specializes in Knowledge Management and Business Intelligence domains, and is responsible for designing and architecting KM and BI solution offerings My sweet wife Chaitali was so patient with my late nights, and I want to thank her for her faithful support while writing this book I would also like to thank my mother for everything She has always been the guiding force for me Writing of this book could not have been possible but for the ungrudging support from my colleagues at InfoAxon Finally, I sincerely thank Packt Publishing for giving me the opportunity to write this book Thank you for buying Alfresco Cookbook About Packt Publishing Packt, pronounced 'packed', published its first book "Mastering phpMyAdmin for Effective MySQL Management" in April 2004 and subsequently continued to specialize in publishing highly focused books on specific technologies and solutions Our books and publications share the experiences of your fellow IT professionals in adapting and customizing today's systems, applications, and frameworks Our solution based books give you the knowledge and power to customize the software and technologies you're using to get the job done Packt books are more specific and less general than the IT books you have seen in the past Our unique business model allows us to bring you more focused information, giving you more of what you need to know, and less of what you don't Packt is a modern, yet unique publishing company, which focuses on producing quality, cuttingedge books for communities of developers, administrators, and newbies alike For more information, please visit our website: www.packtpub.com About Packt Open Source In 2010, Packt launched two new brands, Packt Open Source and Packt Enterprise, in order to continue its focus on specialization This book is part of the Packt Open Source brand, home to books published on software built around Open Source licences, and offering information to anybody from advanced developers to budding web designers The Open Source brand also runs Packt's Open Source Royalty Scheme, by which Packt gives a royalty to each Open Source project about whose software a book is sold Writing for Packt We welcome all inquiries from people who are interested in authoring Book proposals should be sent to author@packtpub.com If your book idea is still at an early stage and you would like to discuss it first before writing a formal book proposal, contact us; 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