Chapter 13. Document management using Alfresco

This chapter covers

  • Learning about Alfresco and how Activiti is integrated
  • Introduction into CMIS using Apache Chemistry
  • Creating a PDF document from a process and store it in Alfresco

In chapter 1, we talked about the history of the Activiti project and its relation to Alfresco. Alfresco offers a document, web content, and record management solution. Alfresco provides an open source version called Alfresco Community, which we’ll be using in this chapter, and a version with enterprise-level support called Alfresco Enterprise. Activiti is used as a workflow engine to provide review and approval processes for items in the Alfresco repository, including documents.

Document management is a natural ...

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