Alfresco is an enterprise content management system built by a new startup that includes the co-founder of Documentum, Interwoven’s former VP of WCM, and two of Interwoven’s principal engineers.
Alfresco has a modular component architecture that allows new functionality to be added without any system disruption.
Alfresco features tight integration with Windows and includes the ability to mount the content repository as a Windows CIFS drive. The CIFS client on Linux is also able to mount the repository.
Alfresco is also a web content management platform. Its is able to virtualize user-level and workflow-related webapps associated with a web project in a highly scalable manner.
Alfresco is built on the Java Server Faces JSF Framework using AOP principles. Alfresco uses many open source Java projects: JBoss 4.0, JBoss-Portal 2.0, jbpm 1.3.2, Spring 1.2, Hibernate 3.0, MyFaces 1.0, Tomcat 5.5, and Apache Lucene.
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