Web services

Tutorial: Use CMDBuild webservices to connect to Alfresco

It has been a long time since I have posted on this blog. Hoping to get back to it and post more often this year!

This post is a follow-up to my old post (Connect to Alfresco from CMDBuild) and gives a short intro on using the CMDBuild web services to connect to Alfresco. The REST/SOAP endpoints provided by CMDBuild are invaluable in building additional connectors/interfaces of your own. The web services (refer here for the manual) can be used for all basic CMDBuild functions – add/update/delete cards, add/update/delete relations, and so on. CMDBuild also provides a few web services to work with card attachments (that are internally stored in Alfresco) – upload/download/delete attachments, update attachment descriptor and get attachments list.

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Getting Fiddler to work with SoapUI

Fiddler is a great little free tool to trace HTTP/HTTPS requests. While it connects itself automatically to most browsers, thereby enabling you to trace all your browser web traffic, its not quite so automatic with other tools. Here are Fiddler’s instructions to configure it to work with different apps. For Java apps, the instructions say (more…)