Introduction

The Alfresco All-in-One Archetype is a multi-module project, leveraging Alfresco SDK™ powerful capabilities to customize and run the full Alfresco platform embedded and all it's components. The archetype does not require additional download and provides a perfect starting point for full-blown Alfresco projects.

Features

Amongst other features, this archetype provides support for:

  • amp packaging support for your projects
  • AMP Dependency management and overlay in an Alfresco Repository or Share WAR
  • Embedded run in Tomcat and embedded H2 database of the full Alfresco suite, including Repository, Share, Solr
  • Support for unit and integration testing and rapid development (using spring-loaded, see run.sh)
  • Seamless IDE integration with Eclipse and Idea

How to create a project:

As of version 2.0-beta-3, you can create a project with the latest released archetype with the following command directly from Maven Central:

mvn archetype:generate -Dfilter=org.alfresco.maven.archetype:alfresco-allinone-archetype

For previous versions, you need to use the Alfresco Artifacts repository:

mvn archetype:generate -Dfilter=org.alfresco.maven.archetype:alfresco-allinone-archetype -DarchetypeCatalog=https://artifacts.alfresco.com/nexus/content/groups/public/archetype-catalog.xml

You should then:

  1. Select the alfresco-allinone-archetype version
  2. Specify the groupId and artifactId for the project you want to create
  3. (Optionally) Select Alfresco Version / Edition (current default is: Alfresco Community 5.0.c)

You can find new Alfresco All-in-One project ready to go in the artifactId folder.

Quickstart

Once your project is created:

  • Enter the project folder and run ./run.sh (you might need to chmod u+x run.sh to make it executable). This will setup the SDK and start Alfresco, Share and Solr in embedded mode.
  • Wait for the startup of the webapps and then go http://localhost:8080.
  • Import the projects in your favorite IDE (with Maven integration) and start developing right away.

Usage

Full instructions on how to use the Alfresco All in One archetype can be found on the usage page, while for more advanced use cases refer to the advanced usage page