Alfresco SDK™ Pre-Requisites
The only real prerequisite of the Alfresco SDK™ Apache Maven 3.0.4 installed (and properly configured) on your machine; neither an IDE nor web container or database are required.
Additional tips:
- It is strongly advised to use the Apache Maven official binary distributions downloaded from the official mirrors; avoid OS-specific distributions as much as possible.
- add MAVEN_OPTS="-Xms256m -Xmx1G -XX:PermSize=300m" to your environment if your plan to launch tests / run embedded in Tomcat
- Refer to this matrix for Alfresco/SDK version compatibility
- Java 1.7 is required to run Alfresco 4.2.b+ and the SDK 1.1.x +
- No manual downloading of Alfresco distribution is required. Alfresco platform is retrieved automatically from the Alfresco Artifacts Repository based on the alfresco.groupId and alfresco.version POM properties
- If you're an Alfresco customer, you can setup a ~/.m2/settings.xml as documented on Alfresco Docs page and specify -Penterprise on your Maven build command to use the latest Alfresco Enterprise version
Enable hot class reload with spring-loaded
In order to enable hot class reload you should use the spring-loaded agent and run all your maven builds with it configured in the JVM. To achieve this you can:
- Download the spring-loaded library from here.
- Export the following MAVEN_OPTS: MAVEN_OPTS="$MAVEN_OPTS -javaagent:/path/to/your/springloaded/jar/springloaded-1.2.0.RELEASE.jar -noverify".
H2 Embedded Support Pre-Requisites
This SDK allows H2 embedded run of Alfresco (NOTE: this is an unsupported configuration for Alfresco Enterprise) leveraging the open source effort Alfresco H2 Support. This bridge allows to emulate Alfresco expected DB behavior and is therefore very specific to every Alfresco version.
Alfresco SDK™ 2.1.0 uses version 1.5 of the Alfresco H2 Support. In case you experience issues with the embedded DB support, please check the H2 Support Compatibility matrix.
Alternatively, you can easily setup your DB access by defining POM properties
