Chapter 3. Understanding the Web Script Framework

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • End-to-end execution flow of a web script
  • Components that collectively make the web script framework
  • Deployment architecture for a web script

The web script framework in Alfresco is a powerful one and its basic goal is to ensure that:

  • Web scripts in Alfresco are easy to develop
  • Web scripts can support various useful features, such as support for internationalization to render output in multiple languages, exposing configuration options for a web script, similarly like the ServletConfig for servlets

The web script framework in Alfresco is designed as per the model-view-controller pattern (MVC pattern) and makes it easy to develop new web scripts to expose ...

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