The document discusses Alfresco Mobile, an open source mobile app for Alfresco. It provides an overview of the app's architecture, which uses CMIS to communicate with Alfresco via REST. It demonstrates features like browsing, searching, and uploading content. The presenters describe Zia Consulting's role in developing the app and releasing the source code. They invite others to contribute and announce upcoming version 1.1 of the open source project.

1. Alfresco Mobile
Level Up Again, Technical Deep Dive
Ryan McVeigh, Director, rmcveigh@ziaconsulting.com
Gi Lee, Principal Consultant, gi.lee@ziaconsulting.com
Mike Muller, Director, mmuller@ziaconsulting.com
11/1/2011 www.ziaconsulting.com 303.443.4004 x203

2. Who are we?
• Ryan McVeigh
• Director @ Zia
• Responsible for Zia’s ECM Practice
• CMIS Secretary and Technical Editor
• Gi Lee
• Principal Consultant @ Zia
• Architect of Alfresco Mobile and Zia’s Fresh Docs products
• CMIS Committee Member
• Michael Muller
• Director @ Zia
• Zia Fresh Docs Inventor and Product Manager

3. Who is Zia?
A firm with deep technical expertise & strategic insight, coupled with our Agile software
methodology, provides numerous benefits to our customers:
Benefits
Our Partners
• Achieve ROI by delivering improved operational efficiencies
• Boost productivity by creating collaborative work environments
• Maintain access and control of information through the enterprise
• Allow employees to find the information they need, when they need it
• Increase end-user adoption
• Agile training by using Zia methodology and Rally tools
• Raving fan customers
Professional Qualifications
• Highly-experienced, accredited senior staff consisting of Business Analysts,
Enterprise Architects, Software Engineers and Data Architects
• Platinum Alfresco Professional Services & OEM Partner
• Platinum Ephesoft Partner
• Alfresco 2010 Implementation of the Year with Denver
• IBM, WeWebU and MuleSoft Partners

4. Agenda
• Alfresco Mobile History
• Architecture Overview
• CMIS Refresher
• Demo
• Technical Deep Dive
• Open Source Project
• Roadmap & What’s Next?
• Questions?

5. Alfresco Mobile History
• Zia released Fresh Docs for iOS in December
2009
• Android application also available
• Alfresco and Zia partnership entered this year
for Alfresco Mobile

6. Architecture Overview
• Mostly a CMIS application talking to Alfresco
• Several features specific to Alfresco
CMIS
Alfresco
REST

7. CMIS Refresher
• CMIS TC Goals & Scope
• Enable applications to target different ECM
repositories uniformly
• Provide a set of basic services enabling richer ECM
applications and use cases
• All for loose coupling of an ECM application on the
underlying repository
• Use popular protocol bindings
• REST / AtomPub
• Web Services / SOAP

8. Demo
• Alfresco Mobile in Action – A Few Features
• CMIS:
• Login to Alfresco over HTTP or HTTPS
• Browse, Search, Display Content and Edit Metadata,
Upload Media
• Create Folders
• Alfresco
• Alfresco Activities
• Like & Unlike, Comment on Documents
• iOS
• Local Downloads
• Multi Tasking

9. Design
• Navigation-based
application to browse
a CMIS Repository
• Universal Binary

10. iPhone UI Design
Simple Layout
• Navigation Bar
• Custom View
• Tab Bar

11. iPhone UI Components
UITabBarController
• Composed of a container for
a tab bar and a custom view
• Each “tab” contains a
custom view

12. iPhone UI Components
UINavigationController
• Each “tab” contains it’s own
instance a
UINavigationController
• Used for navigating
hierarchical content
• It’s a Stack!

13. iPhone UI Components
Custom View
• UITableViewController
– Activities, Documents, Search,
Downloads, Metadata,
Comments, Upload Form, …
• UIViewController
– Document Preview & About
View

14. iPad UI Design
• Maintain the same navigation-
based feel as the iPhone
• Use familiar usage patterns
• Use Split View provided by iOS
SDK
– Container that manages
two side-by-side view
controllers
– Master-Detail Interface

15. Split View Master

16. Split View Master
• Uses the same controllers as the iPhone
interface
• Portrait: Uses a UIPopover
• Landscape: Static Container

17. Split View Detail

18. Split View Detail
• Contains a single UINavigationController that
controls the Navigation Stack of the view

19. Repository Features

20. Feature to CMIS Service
via AtomPub Binding
Feature CMIS Service
Browse & getChildren
Company Home
Download Document getContentStream
Metadata getTypeDefinition
Search Query
Upload createDocument

21. Feature to Alfresco Service
via Alfresco’s RESTful API
Feature Alfresco Service
Activities Feed Activity Service
View & Add Tags Tagging Service
Comments Comment Service
Like a Document Rating Service
Sites List Site Service
Preference Service
Person Service

22. In-Depth Review
• Sequence of actions that occur from App
Launch to loading of the Documents (Browse)
tab.
• CMIS Search Queries
• Creating a RESTful HTTP Request for a CMIS
AtomPub Service

23. Review: App Launch to
Loading of Documents Tab
1. (CMIS) App Launch: Request AtomPub Service Document
– Service Document XML is returned and parsed in RepositoryInfo
objects
2. (Alfresco) Request Sites and parse the JSON response into
RepositoryItem objects
– Request Site Collection using Site Service
– Request Favorite Sites using Preference Service
– Request My Sites using Person Service
3. (CMIS) If Company Home is ON, request the folder
children of the Root Collection
– Atom Feed XML is returned and parsed into RepositoryItem
objects

24. Review: CMIS Search Queries
CMIS full-text search query:
SELECT * FROM cmis:document
WHERE CONTAINS(‘keywords’)
CMIS query on cmis:name property:
SELECT * FROM cmis:document
WHERE
CONTAINS('~cmis:name:’*keywords*'')
– CMIS does not have the ability for case
insensitive queries. LOWER() nor UPPER()
predicate are not available

25. In-Depth Review:
Creating an ObjectById HTTP Request
At a High Level:
1. Parse out the ObjectById template URL from the
service document
2. Create a new class that extends ASIHTTPRequest
• Add an initialize method
• Implement delegate methods
requestFinished: and requestFailed:

26. Review in XCode
• Project Structure in XCode
• Steps Running Alfresco Mobile in the
simulator
• Running the GHUnit unit tests

27. Requirements to Get Started
• Mac OSX with Snow Leopard or Lion
• Apple iOS Developer Account
• Latest Version of XCode 4
• Git
• Objective-C & iOS Programming
• Alfresco’s RESTful API
• Alfresco’s RESTful CMIS AtomPub Binding

28. Open Source
• Hosted on Bitbucket
http://bit.ly/rrNdTc
• Search for “alfresco-mobile”
at bitbucket.org
• Released under the Mozilla Public License Version 1.1
Alfresco Mobile 1.1 source code release by end
of the week!

29. Roadmap
• Features under future
consideration
• Browse Site Members
• Search and Browse for People
• Version History and Upload New Versions
• Browse Recent Docs
• More…
• Alfresco Mobile Product Manager
• Marc Dubresson
• marc.dubresson@alfresco.com
Disclaimer: Neither Alfresco nor Zia are making any
claims or commitments to deliver these features.

30. What’s Next?
• Alfresco 1.1 coming any day
• Code is Open Source
• Happy to have contributors
• Alfresco will coordinate releases of Alfresco
Mobile
• Zia will coordinate releases of Fresh Docs
• If you want to release to the Apple App Store,
contact us

31. Contact Us
• Ryan McVeigh – ECM Business Owner:
• rmcveigh@ziaconsulting.com
• Gi Lee – Fresh Docs Architect
• gi.lee@ziaconsulting.com
• Michael Muller – Fresh Docs PM
• mmuller@ziaconsulting.com