Web Studio

[difranr]

Is Web Studio supported and if so where can it be downloaded? It does not appear to be included in the Alfresco 3.2 release any more.

[yqu]

It is part of spring surf now. You can svn our source code and build studio from it.

Thanks!

Yong

[ygjdev]

Hi Yong,

Can you post web studio WAR file that works? Built war from maven did not seem to work.

Thanks,

[uzi]

We're currently moving all of the Web Studio functionality into a new "productized" framework called the Spring Web Editor. This was checked into trunk (spring-web-editor).

Spring Web Editor includes a non-Surf specific framework that you can use for any Spring project. The Web Editor can be used by clients running on Java but also running on other web technologies such as PHP. A web site can "pull" the web editor into the site by including a small fragment of JavaScript into a page.

This work hasn't been completed but, for the moment, you can build Web Editor and already see it running. There is a sample application included that uses a provided JSP tag library to show how this works.

Obviously, we're aiming pretty high with the Web Editor. By being pluggable, we're aiming to provide a library of things you can snap into it to really get a nice in-context experience. Spring Surf will feature a number of these plugins but so will Alfresco itself.

If folks want to build their own plugins, they're free to do so. These plugins don't have to be Surf, Alfresco or even Spring specific. Take a look and let us know if you have something you'd like to contribute.

Michael

[difranr]

Is 'Spring Web Editor' different from the recent 'Alfresco Web Editor' discussion: http://www.benh.co.uk/alfresco/alfre...tting-started/ ?

[uzi]

It's the same thing. Basically, we've sought to keep the Spring Web Editor framework out in the open so that anyone can build plugins for it. You can build it and deploy it and plug in whatever functionality you want. There's even a sample plugin included in the project.

Alfresco packages this and adds in its own plugins. The result is the Alfresco Web Editor which is included with the Alfresco distribution. This uses the Spring Web Editor framework and gives you in-context editing on top of the Alfresco repository.

The nice thing is that, if you wanted to, you could use that same Alfresco plugin and snap it into your custom Surf apps. That said, the Alfresco in-context editing plugin is not part of the Spring Surf project. You have to get that from Alfresco itself as part of their distribution.

Michael

[equity space]

You have to contact Alfresco directly to get the plug ins.