Next-Gen APS Extensions: Rapid Development with Native Apple Silicon and Docker
What an incredible session! A huge thank you to everyone who joined my Hyland TTL talk today: "Next-Gen APS Extensions: Rapid Development with Native Apple Silicon and Docker".
First and foremost, I want to send a massive shoutout and thank you to Hyland, Antoine Thomas, and Angel Borroy. Thank you so much for involving me in this amazing event and for giving me the platform to spread the word about the APS Project SDK, a community-driven Open Source project that is truly transforming how we develop for Alfresco Process Services.
For those who couldn't make it, we took a deep dive into how the APS SDK (based entirely on Apache Maven and Docker) eliminates development friction and standardizes the entire lifecycle of APS integration projects.
Here is a quick recap of the cool capabilities we covered:
🍏 Native Apple Silicon Support: Seamless development on Arm64 CPUs (M1/M-series) using native Docker containers and transparent Maven profiles.
🐳 Containerized Reliability: Spinning up a crash-proof local architecture with auto-generated persistent volumes for your PostgreSQL database, ElasticSearch, and contentstore attachments.
⚡ Single-Command Magic: We demonstrated how to build, test, and start the entire APS tech stack using just one command: mvn clean install docker:build docker:start.
🔄 Total Version Compatibility: How a unified framework handles it all—from legacy 1.x environments right up to the bleeding-edge APS 26.1.0 release.
The APS SDK is a true community effort and seeing the excitement around our brand new v3.1.0 release has been fantastic.
🔗 If you missed the live session, keep an eye out—I'll be sharing the recording link down in the comments soon!
You can check out the source code and try out the latest release on GitHub here:
https://github.com/OpenPj/alfresco-process-services-project-sdkLet me know what your favorite feature of the new SDK is!