Alfresco Content Model
Alfresco Content models are defined in the Data Dictonary as meta-model. The meta-model consists of two main structures - Content Types and Content Aspect . Content Type is the fundamental Structure of a content item. It defines the composition of properties and behaviours of a content item. Much like in the object-oriented programming model where an object always has to be a defined class type, in Alfresco an item has to be a defined type also. Types are like types or classes in the object-oriented world. They can be used to model business objects, they have properties, and they can inherit from a parent type. “Content”, “Person”, and “Folder” are three important types defined out-of-the-box. There is a root content type defined in Alfresco, all other content types are created inheriting this root type - cm:content or {http://www.alfresco.org/model/content/1.0}content There are two parts in defining the name Namespace of the content type Name of the content type ...
