Alfresco 4 Enterprise Content Management Implementation

Dynamic models

You are able to customize Alfresco by using custom content types. These customizations are typically deployed via the alfresco/extension folder and require the Alfresco server to be restarted to take effect. Starting Version 2.9, Alfresco supports dynamic models to enable dynamic customization of models without requiring a restart of the Alfresco server.

Dynamic models are nothing but XML based model files, which are uploaded to Alfresco's repository in Company Home | Data Dictionary | Model space.

The following are the advantages of Dynamic models:

• Model file changes will not require any Alfresco Server Restart.
• Easy to maintain content & model files as they are stored in the repository.
• All the model files kept in <extension> folder ...