
Alfresco ExplorerĪlfresco Explorer is the clasic webapp bundled with Alfresco ECM, It is the principal web application to do document management, this offers some functionalities of system administratios.īig changes or personalizations on this webapp must be done by XML file (Spring) configuring. Well, this post will review existing initiatives, RIA, RDA (Rich Desktop App) and RAD frameworks for developing clients for Alfresco ECM. … or simply, everybody has different requirements.Alfresco’s content must be delivered for any devices: iPad, Android tablet, PC, etc.UI (look&feel) is not aligned to corporate graphical style.Make changes in existing webapp are not supported.Although there is much online information available on how to make customizations to Alfresco Explorer and Alfresco Share. The technology stack in the company is not Java.What are the main reasons why you need to modify Alfresco’s webclients or create new ones? How to client applications can be connected to Alfresco ECM. Then, they quickly seek to modify existing Alfresco’s webclient and if this is not possible, then seek a tool (framework) to build a desktop or client from scratch.

Several endusers want always customize traditional and existing Alfresco’s web clients, because these do not fit its requeriments. What is a client for Alfresco ECM ?Ī client for Alfresco is any webapp or desktop app that consumes the Alfresco’s services, this client app can be created with Alfresco’s standard framework or with third party frameworks.

Well here I put the review: Because I started to carefully review and discovered with joy that the trend is to use lightweight frameworks capable of creating rich interfaces quickly. Some days ago I saw a post on the LinkedIn’s Alfresco forums asking ‘Which front end framework is Generally used with Alfresco?’, for this reason I started to research and test them and discovered with joy that the trend is to use lightweight frameworks capable of creating rich interfaces quickly.
