As far as I can see the Ingres ECM appliance includes two of the
Alfresco Enterprise 3.0 components: Document Management (ECM) and
Collaboration (Alfresco Share). Important enough. However, it does not
include the Web Content Management (WCM) suite (Surf, Web Studio etc).

Why the omission, I wonder? The WCM suite looks like an excellent web
application development environment and it sits on top of the
Alfresco repository - which is where Ingres lives in the ECM appliance.


Wojtek Rappak
Rational Commerce
www.rationalcommerce.com

On 17 Mar, 19:09, Wojtek Rappak <l... (AT) our (DOT) web.site> wrote:
The WCM component was packaged for the appliance and is still
considered quite raw and experimental. In our discussions it was
decided that WCM should be omitted but included in a later update.

It was felt that the WCM authoring was suitable for the appliance but
that the deployment aspect was beyond the scope of this initial
release.

WCM is functionality that is being considered for the future;
reasonable demand may improve its chances.

HTH

It would indeed be very interesting to try out Alfresco (with WCM) and
Ingres. But since the ECM appliance does not come with WCM, I wonder how
difficult it would be to set up Ingres+Afresco (with WCM)?

The Alfresco piece in the Ingres ECM appliance is the 3.0 Enterprise
version (less WCM) and there is no separate WCM download which could be
bolted on to this (there is only one for 2.2). But even if there were,
doing this rather undermines the very concept of an 'appliance'.

The alternative is to take the full 'community' version of Alfresco -
Alfresco Labs - and configure it together with Ingres. Alfresco Labs
has everything, including WCM. The Labs version comes with a built-in
"database": Derby, and a MySQL configuration option (you have to have
MySQL pre-installed). So the best option would be to configure Labs
with Ingres.

Fortunately, there has been a recent posting on an Alfresco wiki by
David Maier (of Ingres Germany) showing how to set up Labs with Ingres
(http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Instal...3b_and_Ingres).
You need an Ingres schema SQL script for this and there is a version
trap here. David informed me that the 'precreateschema_30stable.sql'
should work with the current release of Labs ('3 Final'). This seems
to be the best option.

If anyone has tried this, please let me know.

Wojtek Rappak

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