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The new revamped Adobe Share (beta) 1.3.5 is out! This version offers PDF creation, updated Flash previews (supports full screen mode) and improved performance. The system is based on the Alfresco for content management. The various rendition generations are based on Adobe LiveCycle, Creative Suite and other core technologies. Share also offers Web Services that developers could use to create desktop or online applications. Here is an application that I created a while back that gives you access to Share on your iPhone. Try share.acrobat.com, it is great way to share your files and presentations (click on the thumbnail to see the Share Flash Preview in action).

If you’ve been using the Share web services, you’ll need to change the URL of the end point from share.adobe.com to share.acrobat.com.

It took a couple of tries to get Alfresco running on OS X with Tomcat 5.5.23, MySQL 5.0.37, and Eclipse 3.2.2. Here are the steps that you need to follow.

1. Install MySQL (it is handy to also install the MySQL Administrator 1.2.11 and MySQL Query Browser 1.2.11)
2. Install the latest supported Eclipse (3.2.2), the Subversion plugin and the Sysdeo’s Tomcat plugin.
3. Download the source code for Alfresco 2.0 (via subversion). Build the the alfresco.war file. In Eclipse open the Alfresco’s common folder, right click on the build.xml file and select Run As… (or Debug As…) menu item. Select the default Ant target but 1st you’ll need to define TOMCAT_HOME and VIRTUAL_TOMCAT_HOME environment variables. The VIRTUAL_TOMCAT_HOME is a new feature of Alfresco 2.0’s WCM (Web Content Management). What I did is to copy the Tomcat folder (called it apache-tomcat-5.5.23-virtual) and assigned VIRTUAL_TOMCAT_HOME to this folder.
4. Initialize the database for Alfresco:
   create database alfresco;
grant all on alfresco.* to ‘alfresco’@'localhost’ identified by ‘alfresco’ with grant option;
5. Configure Tomcat to run with bigger heap: -Xmn128M -Xms256M -Xmx640M Alfresco recommends a heap size of 512MB of heap (or more)
   

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6. That is it. Now fire off Tomcat. You’ll see a three exceptions when Alfresco tries to set it self up as a NetBIOS (CIFS), FTP and SMB servers. You’ll need to either turn these Alfresco’s features off or take the steps (documented by Alfresco) to properly activate them.

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