Flex for Enterprise 3.0

Something new is on the way: FlexibleShare

Flex based version of Alfresco Share / Flex based Portal Container  (Open Source)

1. Dashboard dashlet/portlet drag /drop in Flex
2. Portlets in Flex and HTML/Ajax
3. Leverages FlexSpaces components
4. Leverages Alfresco Share (site model, rest apis, surf, dashlets),
5. Additonal Flex components for wikis, blogs, discussions, calendar
6. Leverage Liferay, (supports jsr-168, wsrp) in a later stage
7. Reporting/BI (JasperReports, Pentaho, BIRT)
8. BPM (JBoss jBPM in Alfresco)
9. Desktop drag/drop of files with AIR

Registered a google code project  http://code.google.com/p/flexibleshare/ and an Alfresco forge project http://forge.alfresco.com/projects/flexibleshare/

Note on the name: Alfresco Share and Surf are already “flexible” (in the able to adapt to new situations sense). Also you can implement Share/Surf components/dashlets with Flex  (as I did with the FlexSpaces page site components).  The difference with FlexibleShare is that the container itself is in Flex and the primary way for implementing dashlet/portlet UI is Flex (and Flex+AIR). Surf dashlets and Liferay portlets in HTML/Ajax are still supported.

Also used “Flexible” to sound like the book Flexible Rails (Flex+Ruby on Rails).  With FlexibleShare although the server scripting would tend to be the usual web scripts in JavaScript, also  supporting Groovy/Grails would be interesting and fit in with the Java and Spring use in Alfresco.  The Alfresco forge has a Groovy integration (although it needs some updating for Alfresco 3.0).

Other things: the use of a web-tier Flex compiler (like the Flex plugin for Grails does) could be used to allow Flex forms/UI to be added (and compiled automatically) without having to use a development tool. BlazeDS support like in this plugin would also be nice too for higher performance data transfer.

Update: See description of  FlexibleShare prototyping mentioned in my Genesis / Flex Portals / Open Source blog post.

Alfresco Share 3.0 Integration, Thumbnail View, CoverFlow View, edit/update, adv search finished, Alfresco 2.1-3.0 support

http://forge.alfresco.com/projects/flexspaces/

* 5 Flex based site page components that provide the functionality of FlexSpaces inside the 3.0 Share application (or Surf app, portal) running in a browser

* Also an experimental  FlexSpaces+AIR with tab for Share

(see FlexSpaces Share Components / FlexSpaces+Share 0.6 / forge section)

* Thumbnail and CoverFlow views (on 3.0)

* Advanced search finished (all features of the alfresco web client adv search except for custom attribute config, saved searches)

* Edit (checkout+download), update existing

* Context menus permission based enable/disable (in addition to main menus)

* Support for Alfresco 2.1-3.0 (tested with 2.2.0 Enterprise, 2.90C_dev Community, 3.0 Labs blds 1032,1066)

FlexSpaces 0.6 screenshots

Here is a sneak peak at FlexSpaces 0.6, which is coming soon.  New features:

• 5 Flex based site page components (flexspaces all views, doclib only, search only, tasks only, wcm only) that provide the functionality of FlexSpaces inside the Alfresco 3.0 Share application (or any Surf based app), portals
• Thumbnail and CoverFlow views (when FlexSpaces+AIR, FlexSpaces+Browser, or FlexSpaces Site Components are running with 3.0)
• Advanced search finished
• Edit (checkout+download), update existing
• Context menus permission based enable/disable (in addition to main menus)
• Support for Alfresco 2.2.0 Enterprise (fixed problems running on versions before 2.9/3.0)

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Alfresco Share Customize Site with FlexSpaces Site Components

FlexSpaces Thumbnail View

FlexSpaces CoverFlow View

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