Whenever we start learning about any new programming language, the first program we implement is the "Hello world" program wherein we simply print the text Hello world as the output of the program. We will also do the same thing here. We will create a basic web script in Alfresco that will simply display Hello world! as the output of the web script.

In order to create a basic and simple web script in Alfresco, you will need to have a descriptor for the web script and a FreeMarker template to render the output of the web script.

Web scripts can be created from the available Alfresco user interfaces or you can have them developed outside of Alfresco and then deploy them. As we are going to implement a very basic web script here, we will use the Alfresco user interface option and will create a web script. You can either use Alfresco Explorer web client or Alfresco Share UI for this. However, as Alfresco Explorer is now not being encouraged...