DeclarativeWebScript versus AbstractWebScript
The web script framework in Alfresco provides two different helper classes from which the Java-backed controller can be derived. It's important to understand the difference between them.
The first helper class is the one we used while developing the web script in this chapter, org.springframework.extensions.webscripts.DeclarativeWebScript. The second one is org.springframework.extensions.webscripts.AbstractWebScript.
DeclarativeWebScript in turn only extends the AbstractWebScript class.
If the Java-backed controller is derived from DeclarativeWebScript, then execution assistance is provided by the DeclarativeWebScript class. This helper class basically encapsulates the execution of the web script and ...
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