Working with Alfresco in Java EE

I've dedicated some serious hours to installing and deploying Alfresco on a MediaTemple (dv) VPS. The result has been a revelation of sorts. It's the big time for open source enterprise content management (ECM) and there's no going back.

Alfresco is like having your own personal cloud-based Google Docs to customize and host as many secure accounts as you like. While set up and configuration are not a cakewalk, it can be done. I took some decent notes on the process, so I will check back in to detail the process of configuring MediaTemple's vps environment.

In particular, I will show a method to set up a new JDK, fine tune Plesk and the Apache environment, and finally modify some scripts in Alfresco with the result of a successful java build.

That aside, the Java EE with Alfresco is a beast on memory. If there is any hidden cost on running the community edition of Alfresco, that may be it.