The purpose of this service is to provide a security ticket that is used as a token for secure access to all the other Alfresco Web services.

Every Alfresco workflow must start with a call to this service.

Operations

startSession(String username, String password)

This takes as input the username and password of an administrator Alfresco account and returns three strings: the username from the input message, a security ticket and the Java session id associated with the security ticket. By default, the ticket is valid for 5 minutes.

endSession(String ticket)

This operation takes the security ticket string as a parameter and terminates the associated Java session and thus invalidates the ticket.