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Alfresco's New Facebook App is No Popstar Babe

Alfresco is pushing for the expansion of social computing in the enterprise. John Newton believes this is an imperative, and even more, that it is being driven by a new generation of information workers who just can’t stand the current state of enterprise software.

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Alfresco’s First Facebook Application

The application is modeled on existing Facebook photo and video sharing apps and as such leverages Facebook’s native security and access control framework and then augments this with Alfresco’s own object level ACL capabilities. Users who install and configure the application can create document libraries and then assign access to groups and/or to specific users.

A Light Integration Architecture

Alfresco has tried to keep things light. Under the covers, an Alfresco Facebook Application is developed by referencing both standard Facebook development practices and Alfresco’s Web Script Framework. The Web Scripts framework has been extended as part of the project, so would be Facebook/Alfresco developers won’t be scared off by nasty things like Java coding IDEs, compile-time errors or null reference exceptions.