Hyland Alfresco Developer - Introduction

What's involved in becoming an Alfresco Developer.

What you'll learn

Learn about the Hyland and Alfresco companies

Become familiar with the Alfresco product and modules

Become familiar with the Alfresco developer environments

Learn what software that is needed to develop for Alfresco (SDKs, Tools)

Learn about the different GitHub projects that make up the Alfresco software

Learn about documentation and books

Requirements

Basic programming experience.

Java knowledge is an advantage as the Alfresco product is developed in Java. But you can follow along even if you are not a Java programmer.

Docker knowledge is useful. The developer environment uses Docker, but if you don't know it you will learn by following along..

Description

This course is aimed at teaching you enough about the Alfresco Content Services (ACS) and Alfresco Process Services (APS) products and their developer environments to be able to move on and confidently start learning more hands-on how to develop extensions for ACS and APS.After finishing this course you should be able to answer the following type of questions:* What is the Hyland Software company and what do they do?* What is the Alfresco Software company and what do they do?* What is Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and how is it related to Alfresco?* What is Business Process Management (BPM) and how is it related to Alfresco?* What is Alfresco Content Services (ACS)?* What is Alfresco Process Services (APS)?* Are ACS and APS open source products?* Can I run these products locally on my laptop?* What does the architecture look like for ACS and APS?* What do I need to know when it comes to programming languages, frameworks etc to start developing extensions?* What tools/SDKs are used to develop extensions for ACS and APS?* Where is the source code for ACS and APS?* Where can I find the documentation for Alfresco software?* What Alfresco books could be useful to read?

Overview

Section 1: Alfresco Developer Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 Assumptions

Lecture 3 Introduction to ECM

Lecture 4 Introduction to BPM

Lecture 5 Hyland sites

Lecture 6 Alfresco sites

Lecture 7 Activiti open source workflow engine

Lecture 8 Alfresco Content Services (ACS)

Lecture 9 Alfresco Process Services (APS)

Lecture 10 ACS and APS integrated

Lecture 11 Alfresco Hub

Lecture 12 Source code

Lecture 13 ACS Development Environment

Lecture 14 APS Development Environment

Lecture 15 ACS and APS UI Development Environment

Lecture 16 Documentation

Lecture 17 Books

Developers that wants to build extensions for the Alfresco content management solution.,Software Architects that want to get familiar with the Alfresco Developer environment.,Project Managers that wants to get an overview of how extensions are built for Alfresco.