Java and Content Management

Mickaël Tricot Mathijs Brand

#BostonJava

@mickaeltr @mathijsbrand

@OneHippo

Content Management

It's about Content

Content is King

Content is

Relevant Trustworthy Accessible Interactive

Photos Whiteafrican Flickr

Photos Whiteafrican Flickr

Sysadmins

Content Management

Content Repository

+ Events, Search, Versions, Unstructured

Query Integrity Structure

Transactions

File-System RDBMS

Locking Binaries

Hierarchy Permissions

Standard technology

Java Content Repository

JCR v1.0 = JSR-170 (2005) JCR v2.0 = JSR-283 (2009) JCR v2.1 = JSR-333 (work in progress)

Standard technology

Reference implementation

JCR domain model

JCR API

JCR adoption

Demo

Hippo CMS

Hippo Repository

Hippo CMS Hippo Site Toolkit

Open source (Apache license)

Hippo CMS

Web application Runtime modifiable configuration in repository

Extensible via plugins

Hippo Repository

Hippo Site Toolkit

Framework for publishing content

HST JCR support

JCR session pooling

JCR to Java mapping

JCR search API

HST content publishing

Web pages with JSP / Velocity / Freemarker Parameterized components rendering Tag library (EL)

REST API with JAXB and JAX-RS

HST request handling

Runtime-modifiable configuration Request matching (with wildcards) to identify •  Content to serve •  URL + Channel configuration

Request processing with pluggable valves

Deployment model

Roadmap

Let's play!

Download and build project at github.com/mickaeltr/Boston-Java-Meetup mvn install mvn -P cargo.run -D repo.path=/tmp/repo

For JRebel users

mvn [...] -D jrebel