What this book covers

Chapter 1, Getting Familiar with Web Scripts, introduces you to web scripts by exploring answers to some of the basic questions about web scripts, which will give you a clear idea about how web scripts can be useful for implementing integration solutions with Alfresco.

Chapter 2, It's Time for the First Web Script, walks you through implementing your first web script in Alfresco, which will give you the knowledge required about the core fundamentals along with some key points to take care of when practically implementing web scripts in your projects.

Chapter 3, Understanding the Web Script Framework, covers the powerful web script framework, which will make you well acquainted with the detailed technical knowledge of web script execution and the backbone pillars of the web script framework.

Chapter 4, Building Blocks of Web Scripts, provides you complete details about all the components to build web scripts.

Chapter 5, Invoking Web Scripts, describes the various ways you can execute a web script that will help you to choose the way to execute web scripts as required.

Chapter 6, Creating Java-backed Web Scripts, helps you understand how to practically implement Java-backed web scripts through the implementation of a sample use case.

Chapter 7, Understanding JavaScript-based Web Scripts in Detail, explains what you can do with JavaScript APIs in Alfresco web scripts and makes you aware about the different root objects to access these APIs and useful root objects exposed by the web script framework. It also takes you through some code examples for some of the common functionalities in JavaScript-based web scripts.

Chapter 8, Deployment, Debugging, and Troubleshooting Web Scripts, guides you through the options to deploy web scripts in detail and also walks you through some useful debugging techniques and troubleshooting pointers along with some important points to execute web scripts in a production environment.

Chapter 9, Mavenizing Web Scripts, gives you basic knowledge of setting up the development environment in Eclipse using the Alfresco Maven SDK to develop web scripts.

Chapter 10, Extending the Web Script Framework, familiarizes you with the possibility of extending the core components of the web script framework in Alfresco to help you understand the power of working in an open source technology.