As you know from a previous post, it bothers me that out-of-the-box, D2 does NOTHING. In an effort to help validate D2 v4.5 installations and provide a test environment for my DQL Editor widget, I developed a simple "starter" application that I named "D-Top". D-Top...
The Issue Mule ESB provides a built-in mechanism to call a Spring bean. Mule also provides an entry point resolver mechanism to choose the method that should be called on the desired bean. One such method is the property-entry-point-resolver. This means the...
A while back I said Armedia was investing in the next generation ArkCase. I promised occasional updates. Since then I've written a few technical stories (CLICK HERE to view all of our ArkCase blog posts). Today I want to describe how we've started to achieve...
Spring MVC's message conversion feature is the bomb. I love it; I wish I'd started using it long ago. Just make sure your JSON fields match your POJO property names, and your MVC controller includes a POJO parameter or return value. Then Spring MVC auto-converts...
Over the past several months, I have written several blogs about my project, the ArkCase framework. In this post, I will cover how we have gotten ArkCase to work with Spring Security. It is important to note that each organization has their own user directory, their...
I just finished my first Mule flow. My flow receives an Alfresco node reference and declares a corresponding record in the Alfresco Records Management Application. I learned about Mule and Alfresco RM along the way... specifically, I learned to think like a Mule,...
In today’s information-centric age, government organizations face the daunting challenge of offering enhanced services to citizens while simultaneously improving efficiencies and cutting costs. Let’s face it, whether you’re talking about the Affordable Care Act, the...
In case you missed us at Alfresco DevCon San Jose, Here is a copy of our presentation. This presentation focused on illustrating how Alfresco and other open source technologies can be leveraged for government agencies.
In our last blog we discussed the value and inherent benefits of integrating Alfresco, the open source enterprise content management platform, and Ephesoft, the open source intelligent document capture solution, in an enterprise solution. In this blog, let’s look at...
Like many, Armedia has customers who are upgrading their desktop computing environments from Windows XP to Windows 7 (Did anyone use Vista?). We recently ran into an interesting situation with one such customer who was using a customized WebDAV solution to allow users...
To really be able to answer the question “Why Open Source?” you must have a thorough understanding of the different benefits of open source software that businesses can experience. Today, there are open source office solutions available for almost every common type of...
How do we avoid what philosopher George Santayana warned of when he said, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”. Today's platforms, frameworks and methodologies all help us learn from the past and can go a long way to help assure our optimum...