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Having created a space in Part Three, we now want to access it from our web application. The Alfresco web-client provides some servlets to allow URL-based access to pages within the client. To use these servlets without having to log in you have to request an authentication ticket via a web services call and append it to the url.

We want to access the node 066a443a-a43f-4911-9ef2-56cd96a3392e in this example which is the reference for the space we created. The url is

http://localhost:8080/alfresco/n/browse/workspace/SpacesStore/066a443a-a43f-4911-9ef2-56cd96a3392e

We will be using the browse outcome of the ExternalAccessServlet which takes a node reference of the folder to display.

First we get an authentication ticket: String userName = "admin"; String password = "admin"; String ticket = ""; // Start the session and get a ticket try { AuthenticationServiceSoapBindingStub authenticationService = (AuthenticationServiceSoapBindingStub) new AuthenticationServiceLocator().getAuthenticationService(); AuthenticationResult result = authenticationService.startSession(userName, password); ticket = result.getTicket(); } catch (ServiceException serviceEx) { System.out.println("javax.xml.rpc.ServiceException: " + serviceEx); } catch (RemoteException remoteEx) { System.out.println("java.rmi.RemoteException: " + remoteEx); } System.out.println("Ticket is: " + ticket);

Now we append the ticket to the url: String BROWSE_SPACE = "http://localhost:8080/alfresco/n/browse/workspace/SpacesStore/"; String nodeReference = "066a443a-a43f-4911-9ef2-56cd96a3392e"; String APPEND_TICKET = "?ticket="; String url = BROWSE_SPACE + nodeReference + APPEND_TICKET + ticket;

You can then access the workspace page directly by opening up a url similar to this:

http://localhost:8080/alfresco/n/browse/workspace/SpacesStore/066a443a-a43f-4911-9ef2-56cd96a3392e?ticket=TICKET_c02f49a5cb8db3f59e4b538d25deaa202f4de493

You can get more information about accessing the web client using urls here.

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