Maven dependencies required in pom.xml for downloading a document from alfresco

Question

In my java maven project there is a requirement to download documents from Alfresco. I'm not able to figure out which are the dependencies to be added in the pom file for the same. Hope some of you can help.

Thanks in advance...

Adding the maven dependencies I tried with

<!-- GROSS -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.alfresco</groupId>
            <artifactId>alfresco-web-service-client</artifactId>
            <version>3.3</version>
        </dependency>
    
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.alfresco</groupId>
            <artifactId>alfresco-web-client</artifactId>
            <version>3.3</version>
        </dependency>
    
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.googlecode.json-simple</groupId>
            <artifactId>json-simple</artifactId>
            <version>1.1</version>
        </dependency>
    
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.axis</groupId>
            <artifactId>axis</artifactId>
            <version>1.4</version>
        </dependency>
    
        <dependency>
            <groupId>commons-discovery</groupId>
            <artifactId>commons-discovery</artifactId>
            <version>0.4</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.bouncycastle</groupId>
            <artifactId>bcprov-jdk15on</artifactId>
            <version>1.52</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>ultimatixWPSWebServiceClient</groupId>
            <artifactId>ultimatixWPSWebServiceClient</artifactId>
            <version>19.1.1-1</version>
        </dependency>
    
        <dependency>
            <groupId>commons-el</groupId>
            <artifactId>commons-el</artifactId>
            <version>1.0</version>
        </dependency>
    
        <dependency>
            <groupId>wsdl4j</groupId>
            <artifactId>wsdl4j</artifactId>
            <version>1.6.2</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.ws.security</groupId>
            <artifactId>wss4j</artifactId>
            <version>1.5.8</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.santuario</groupId>
            <artifactId>xmlsec</artifactId>
            <version>1.4.0</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>xerces</groupId>
            <artifactId>xercesImpl</artifactId>
            <version>2.9.1</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.myfaces.core</groupId>
            <artifactId>myfaces-api</artifactId>
            <version>1.1.5</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.myfaces.core</groupId>
            <artifactId>myfaces-impl</artifactId>
            <version>1.1.5</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.myfaces.tomahawk</groupId>
            <artifactId>tomahawk</artifactId>
            <version>1.1.9</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>commons-lang</groupId>
            <artifactId>commons-lang</artifactId>
            <version>2.6</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
          <groupId>xerces</groupId>
          <artifactId>xerces</artifactId>
          <version>2.4.0</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
          <groupId>commons-digester</groupId>
          <artifactId>commons-digester</artifactId>
          <version>2.1</version>
        </dependency> 
        <dependency>
            <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
            <artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
            <version>1.0</version>
        </dependency>       
        <dependency>
            <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
            <artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
            <version>2.3</version>
        </dependency> 

** AND I was getting error on server starting **

ERROR [org.apache.commons.digester.Digester] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 200) Parse Error at line 2 column 14: Document is invalid: no grammar found.: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; systemId: jar:file:/D:/Softwares/jboss-eap-7.2/modules/system/layers/base/org/jboss/as/jsf-injection/main/wildfly-jsf-injection-7.2.0.GA-redhat-00005.jar!/META-INF/faces-config.xml; lineNumber: 2; columnNumber: 14; Document is invalid: no grammar found.
    at org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.error(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.scanStartElement(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl$NSContentDispatcher.scanRootElementHook(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source)

Answer 1

There are 2 way you can download document from alfresco.

1. User alfresco rest-api https://api-explorer.alfresco.com/api-explorer/
2. Use cmis in you java code. https://ecmarchitect.com/archives/tag/opencmis

Answer 2

Please give a try with the latest version of the alfresco web service client, seems like you are using a old version.

<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.alfresco/alfresco-web-service-client -->
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.alfresco</groupId>
    <artifactId>alfresco-web-service-client</artifactId>
    <version>5.0.a</version>
</dependency>

<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.alfresco/alfresco-web-client -->
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.alfresco</groupId>
    <artifactId>alfresco-web-client</artifactId>
    <version>4.2.f</version>
</dependency>

Also you can use the Rest api explorer if you were using Alfresco 5.2 or higher to download a document.

https://api-explorer.alfresco.com/api-explorer/#!/nodes/getNodeContent