I'm trying to make a Web Service in JAVA that communicates with Alfresco. This Web Service is requested by Alfresco to give informations about a document that is on Alfresco. So, I make a request from Alfresco to Web Service from a specific document, and the Web Service returns the information about this document to display on Alfresco.
I read that I can use Alfresco CMIS or Alfresco Web Services API to make the communication with web services and Alfresco. Is that right? What is the difference between them and which is better for my problem?
Another important question is, to make the authentication, I saw in the book Alfresco CMIS by Martin Bergljung that I have to put "username" and "password" in the code. But, I want to adapt to all users of Alfresco, there are safe ways of authentication instead of this, give the authentication from Alfresco to Web Service for example? I read the book and I don't find the solution yet.
I think the biggest difference between them is that since Alfresco 5 the WebService API isn't available anymore.
So I would think too much and go with CMIS.