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-# README
+# TODO
-Repository is a work in progress and is temporary. It will be deleted. Please do not clone it.
+## Create new README for the combined project
-It is an attempt to combine a number of existing community projects to make development of the repository component
-simpler. It creates an alfresco.war and an alfresco/alfresco-community-repo-base docker image that contains no other
-ACS components. A branch of acs-community-packaging is also being changed so that dependency management flows from
-this project to the packaging and AMP projects.
+Original README files:
-## Project versions
+### Alfresco Core
+[](https://travis-ci.com/Alfresco/alfresco-core)
-This table shows the project branches/tags that have been used to create the branches on alfresco-community-repo.
+Alfresco Core is a library packaged as a jar file which is part of [Alfresco Content Services Repository](https://community.alfresco.com/docs/DOC-6385-project-overview-repository).
+The library contains the following:
+* Various helpers and utils
+* Canned queries interface and supporting classes
+* Generic encryption supporting classes
-| alfresco-community-repo | alfresco-core | alfresco-data-model | alfresco-repository | alfresco-remote-api | acs-community-packaging |
-| ----------------------- | ------------------ | -------------------- | -------------------- | -------------------- | ----------------------- |
-|master | master | master | master | master | develop |
-|release/6.2.N | support/SP/7.N | support/SP/8.50.N | support/SP/7.N | support/SP/7.N | develop |
-|release/6.2.1 | tags/7.33 | tags/8.50.14 | support/HF/7.183.N | support/HF/7.133.N | develop |
-|release/6.2.0 | tags/7.22 | support/HF/8.50.2.N | support/HF/7.134.N | support/HF/7.107.N | develop |
-|release/6.1.1 | support/HF/7.5.7.N | support/HF/8.25.11.N | support/HF/7.33.42.N | support/HF/7.34.25.N | develop |
-|release/6.1.0 | support/HF/7.5.1.N | tags/8.25.1 | support/HF/7.33.12.N | support/HF/7.34.1.N | develop |
-|release/6.0.1 | tags/7.5 | tags/8.18 | support/HF/6.56.15.N | support/HF/6.39.7.N | develop |
-|release/6.0.0 | tags/7.3 | tags/8.9 | support/HF/6.56.5.N | support/HF/6.39.2.N | develop |
+Version 7 of the library uses Spring 5, Quartz 2.3 and does not have Hibernate dependency.
+
+### Building and testing
+The project can be built and tested by running Maven command:
+~~~
+mvn clean install
+~~~
+
+### Artifacts
+The artifacts can be obtained by:
+* downloading from [Alfresco repository](https://artifacts.alfresco.com/nexus/content/groups/public)
+* getting as Maven dependency by adding the dependency to your pom file:
+~~~
+
+ org.alfresco
+ alfresco-core
+ version
+
+~~~
+and Alfresco repository:
+~~~
+
+ alfresco-maven-repo
+ https://artifacts.alfresco.com/nexus/content/groups/public
+
+~~~
+The SNAPSHOT version of the artifact is **never** published.
+
+### Old version history
+The history for older versions can be found in [Alfresco SVN](https://svn.alfresco.com/repos/alfresco-open-mirror/services/alfresco-core/)
+
+### Contributing guide
+Please use [this guide](CONTRIBUTING.md) to make a contribution to the project.
+
+### Alfresco Data Model
+[](https://travis-ci.com/Alfresco/alfresco-data-model)
+
+Data model is a library packaged as a jar file which is part of [Alfresco Content Services Repository](https://community.alfresco.com/docs/DOC-6385-project-overview-repository).
+The library contains the following:
+* Dictionary, Repository and Search Services interfaces
+* Models for data types and Dictionary implementation
+* Parsers
+
+Please note that the data model uses version 2 of the Jackson libraries.
+The upgrade from version 1 was not backward compatible, any projects
+that are dependent on data model using Jackson 1.x should use the data-model 6.N branch.
+
+Version 8.0 of data-model depends on alfresco-core 7.0 which is based on Spring 5.
+
+
+### Building and testing
+The project can be built and tested by running Maven command:
+~~~
+mvn clean install
+~~~
+
+### Artifacts
+The artifacts can be obtained by:
+* downloading from [Alfresco repository](https://artifacts.alfresco.com/nexus/content/groups/public)
+* getting as Maven dependency by adding the dependency to your pom file:
+~~~
+
+ org.alfresco
+ alfresco-data-model
+ version
+
+~~~
+and Alfresco repository:
+~~~
+
+ alfresco-maven-repo
+ https://artifacts.alfresco.com/nexus/content/groups/public
+
+~~~
+The SNAPSHOT version of the artifact is **never** published.
+
+### Old version history
+The history for older versions can be found in [Alfresco SVN](https://svn.alfresco.com/repos/alfresco-open-mirror/alfresco/HEAD/root/projects/data-model)
+
+### Contributing guide
+Please use [this guide](CONTRIBUTING.md) to make a contribution to the project.
+
+### Alfresco Repository
+[](https://travis-ci.com/Alfresco/alfresco-repository)
+
+Repository is a library packaged as a jar file which is part of [Alfresco Content Services Repository](https://community.alfresco.com/docs/DOC-6385-project-overview-repository).
+The library contains the following:
+* DAOs and SQL scripts
+* Various Service implementations
+* Utility classes
+
+### Building and testing
+The project can be built by running Maven command:
+~~~
+mvn clean install
+~~~
+The tests are combined in test classes split by test type or Spring application context used in the test, see classes in _src/test/java/org/alfresco_. All of these classes as well as individual tests can be run by specifying the test class name and a set of DB connection properties, for example:
+~~~
+mvn clean test -Dtest=SomeRepoTest -Ddb.driver=org.postgresql.Driver -Ddb.name=alfresco -Ddb.url=jdbc:postgresql:alfresco -Ddb.username=alfresco -Ddb.password=alfresco
+~~~
+
+### Artifacts
+The artifacts can be obtained by:
+* downloading from [Alfresco repository](https://artifacts.alfresco.com/nexus/content/groups/public)
+* getting as Maven dependency by adding the dependency to your pom file:
+~~~
+
+ org.alfresco
+ alfresco-repository
+ version
+
+~~~
+and Alfresco Maven repository:
+~~~
+
+ alfresco-maven-repo
+ https://artifacts.alfresco.com/nexus/content/groups/public
+
+~~~
+The SNAPSHOT version of the artifact is **never** published.
+
+### Contributing guide
+Please use [this guide](CONTRIBUTING.md) to make a contribution to the project.
+
+### Alfresco Remote API
+[](https://travis-ci.com/Alfresco/alfresco-remote-api)
+
+Remote API is a library packaged as a jar file which is part of [Alfresco Content Services Repository](https://community.alfresco.com/docs/DOC-6385-project-overview-repository).
+The library contains the following:
+* REST API framework
+* WebScript implementations including [V1 REST APIs](https://community.alfresco.com/community/ecm/blog/2017/05/02/v1-rest-api-10-things-you-should-know)
+* [OpenCMIS](https://chemistry.apache.org/java/opencmis.html) implementations
+
+### Building and testing
+The project can be built by running Maven command:
+~~~
+mvn clean install
+~~~
+The tests are combined in test classes split by test type or Spring application context used in the test, see classes in _src/test/java/org/alfresco_. All of these classes as well as individual tests can be run by specifying the test class name and a set of DB connection properties, for example:
+~~~
+mvn clean test -Dtest=SomeTest -Ddb.driver=org.postgresql.Driver -Ddb.name=alfresco -Ddb.url=jdbc:postgresql:alfresco -Ddb.username=alfresco -Ddb.password=alfresco
+~~~
+
+### Artifacts
+The artifacts can be obtained by:
+* downloading from [Alfresco repository](https://artifacts.alfresco.com/nexus/content/groups/public)
+* getting as Maven dependency by adding the dependency to your pom file:
+~~~
+
+ org.alfresco
+ alfresco-remote-api
+ version
+
+~~~
+and Alfresco Maven repository:
+~~~
+
+ alfresco-maven-repo
+ https://artifacts.alfresco.com/nexus/content/groups/public
+
+~~~
+The SNAPSHOT version of the artifact is **never** published.
+
+### Contributing guide
+Please use [this guide](CONTRIBUTING.md) to make a contribution to the project.