Alfresco 3 Cookbook

Chapter 8. Alfresco JavaScript API

In this chapter, we will cover:

• Writing and executing scripts
• Adding/Changing the contents of a document
• Creating a backup copy of a document
• Adding a tag to a document
• Assigning Permissions to a User
• Debugging Alfresco JavaScript

Introduction

An API (Application Programming Interface) is an interface implemented and offered by a software program that enables other applications to interact with it, or enables developers to write other applications on top of it. An API can be exposed in several different forms, such as internal class model and implementation using which you can write your program, or as different services, for example, web services. As a solution developer of an Enterprise framework, you need to be proficient ...