Our First ADF Experience
- 1. Our First ADF Experience Hans De Bal @hdebal
- 2. Learn. Connect. Collaborate. Warning Mismatch between use-case and product! Limited use of ADF components
- 3. ADF
- 4. Learn. Connect. Collaborate. Our ADF story • First ADF project • ADF 2.3 2.4 2.5 • Started from scratch, not from ACA • Compatible with IE, FF and Chrome • Mobile-friendly • Components integrated in non-document centric application
- 5. Learn. Connect. Collaborate. Experience Technical • Nice components but… • Custom implementation of injectables Technical Ctd. • Loading time (PROD) • Keeping up with latest versions of dependencies Varia • Demo-shell, ACA, APW • Gitter/Bi- weekly calls
- 6. Learn. Connect. Collaborate. Bugs/remarks 5 bugs 6 feature requests • 6 fixed after upgrade • 2 fixed in ADF 3.0 • 2 still in backlog Upgrades • Response times • Next ADF- version • Hotfixes? PRs • Contributions from community User friendly? • Taskcompon ent • Peopleselect or • Tasklist • … ?
- 7. Learn. Connect. Collaborate. Documentation Functional • Lack of functional description • Lack of visuals Technical • Good entrypoint • Actual use, dive into the code ACS or APS? • Is it a ACS or APS component? E.g. peopleselector https://alfresco.github.io/adf-component-catalog/index.html
- 8. Demo
- 9. APS (1.9)
- 10. Learn. Connect. Collaborate. Why APS? • Customer had the license • Speed up development • Strategy of Alfresco (more future proof) • Integrated components in ADF (task forms, tasklist…)
- 11. Learn. Connect. Collaborate. Quality? Disappointing! • No SDK/RAD • Lack of decent developer documentation • Form designer very limited (multi-person picker) • Public API – Always returns null for certain property – Parameters that don’t work – Response object in api-explorer not matching actual response – When querying tasks, no permissions returned – … • Process variables substitution in link doesn't work for completed processes
- 12. Learn. Connect. Collaborate. Quality? • Manual installation custom processes • Process app not available automatically for all users. • No jobLockService Lots of bugs and shortcomings!
- 13. Learn. Connect. Collaborate. Conclusion APS 2.0? Or embedded activiti engine
- 14. Support
- 15. Learn. Connect. Collaborate. Help wanted! • Where to log ADF issue? • Support for ACS was good • Support for APS was mixed
- 16. Learn. Connect. Collaborate. Some figures • ADF – 2 fixed in 3.0 – 2 in backlog • ACS – 2 pending engineering • 1 PR merged • APS – 6 pending engineering 11 5 8 7 3 2 ADF ACS APS Opened Fixed
- 17. Custom synchronization and authentication system
- 18. Learn. Connect. Collaborate. Custom subsystem • Create properties and context.xml file under src/main/resources/alfresco/subsystems • Create “userRegistry”-and “authenticationComponent”-bean
- 19. Learn. Connect. Collaborate. Synchronization • Implements UserRegistry • Override some methods – getPeopleSince – getPersonNames • REST-call to get all users
- 20. Learn. Connect. Collaborate. Authentication • Extend AbstractAuthenticationComponent • Override authenticateImpl • REST-call to authenticate user