Alfresco is a very flexible content-platform in general. It provides mechanisms to customize almost every component (Spring-Bean, Webscript, Templates) shipped with the core product. Still, there are times when the solution is not as obvious and as the developer initially had in mind.

Sometimes you need to know where an application is spending how much time. The old school System.currentTimeMillis() approach works for basic scenarios. If you have a Spring based application, applying an AOP style “bean injection” approach may get you far better results – cleaner and faster.