Accessing remote Alfresco web services

You can check that the alfresco webservices are accessible on a remote machine by accessing the url http://hostname:8080/alfresco/api.  You should get the following message. Axis HTTP Servlet Hi, you have reached the AXIS HTTP Servlet. Normally you would be hitting...

Using Chainsaw to tail your JBoss server log

Log4j is a logging library from Apache.  It consists of loggers (log events) and appenders (a destination for a log message).  There’s always a rootLogger defined, plus however many other loggers you require.  A logger can have several appenders attached to it...

Alfresco – Create User

Creating a new alfresco user using a web service call requires the following jar files in your classpath: alfresco-web-service-client.jar axis-1.4.jar commons-discovery-0.4.jar commons-logging-1.1.jar jaxrpc.jar opensaml-1.1.jar wsdl4j-1.6.2.jar wss4j.jar...

Debugging Seam applications

Seam provides two different pages that can be useful for debugging applications.  The Facelets Debug page which shows page-rendering errors, and the Seam Debug page which shows any uncaught application exceptions. Enable the Facelets Debug Page: In web.xml you set...

Adding Facelets and Seam UI to your application

It’s generally recommended in seam applications that Facelets be used instead of JSP.  JSP pages are processed by the JSP container at the same time as they’re processed by the JSF engine which can cause conflicts.  Performance is also improved when the...