In this chapter, we covered the REST architecture at high level and saw how an Alfresco web script allows users to integrate Alfresco with any external application easily, independent of the technology. In this way, you can use Alfresco WCM purely for content authoring and as a content production system without worrying about the frontend rendering of it. Hence, the same Alfresco WCM content can be used and rendered in different ways with multiple applications. Again, web scripts support different output formats, including XML, JSON, and so on, so you can generate the output in the format expected by the frontend application very easily. Mainly we discussed:

In the next chapter, we will discuss how we can leverage the Alfresco framework for WCM.