Building Next Generation Enterprise Web Sites with Alfresco

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Building Next Generation Enterprise Websites with Alfresco WCM, JBoss Seam and Facelets

Mike VertalCEO & President

Russ DannerSenior Architect

Rivet Logic Corporation

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Reston, VA 20191

Ph: 703.234.7761

Fax: 703.234.7711

View the full webinar here:http://tinyurl.com/alfresco-jboss


Rivetlogic


Strong Customer Base• Over 50 clients throughout North America • Primarily Fortune 2000, Media / Publishing and Government clients

Award-winning professional services focused on enabling:• Enterprise Collaboration • Enterprise Communities• Enterprise and Web Content Management• Using Leading Open Source Software

Certified technology partnerships



Technical Excellence


• North American Partner of the Year, two years running • Certified Partner since 2005

• Most active partner on public forums

• 20+ Alfresco deployments underway or completed

• Author / Maintainer of 4+ Alfresco Forge projects



Award Winning Approach


View the full webinar here:tinyurl.com/alfresco-jboss


Next Generation Enterprise Websites

• Fully Managed

• Integration Ready

• Highly Scalable

• Content Rich

• Dynamic

• Social Enabled

• Personalized




Management versus Delivery





• System of Record• Enterprise Service Provider• Store / Version • Audit• Workflow Facilitation• Structural Validation • Offline Rendition• Authoring / Capture• Deployment and Snapshot• Enterprise Search• Manage Taxonomy

• Presentation / Delivery• Visitor Profile• Visitor Interaction• Localized Search• Consume Taxonomy• Consume Services (e.g. DRM

Watermarking)

• Personalize• Online Rendition• Capture• Integrations (Endeca, Akamai, etc)

Content Management Content Delivery



Separation of Concerns / Factoring

• Decouple the SLAo Different responsibilities (serve vs. manage)o Generally serve a different cast or roles / personnelo Different throughputso Different up-times

• Minimize Trade-offs and Manage Complexityo Too much cohesion leads to compromiseo Too many concerns focuses complexity

• Organize for re-useo Centralize management capabilities and resources




High Level Approach

• Author / Capture and Manage the website assets in Alfresco WCM

o Individual Sandboxeso Webforms and CIFS for Authoring / Captureo Full Preview Integrationo Snapshots and Deployment

• Separate JEE - based Delivery Environmento Consumes deployed managed assetso Integrates with external systemso Focused on delivery and scale




Sample Physical Deployment




A Layered Approach to Delivery



Example Allocation



Web Content Delivery


• XML based model of website page structure

• Template support including Facelets, PHP, Freemarker

• Ability to access page metadata and site tree structure programmatically

• Support for domain-specific model

• Inheritance support

• High performance runtime assembly

• Can be used to drive navigation



Facelets


• Alternative JSF page template format to JSP

• Better aligned with JSF rendering lifecycle

• Better performance

• Much more designer-friendly

• No more clumsy tags to adapt JSF components to JSP pages

• Support for composite components and “tiles”



JBoss Seam


• Application framework for building next generation Web 2.0 apps o Unifies AJAX,

Java Server Faces (JSF), Enterprise Java Beans (EJB3), Java Portlets, and Business Process Management (BPM)

• Advanced scoped managed beans (conversation, BPM)o Contextual Component Scoping (Wide to Narrow)

• Less XML Configurationo Bi-jection and attribute based wiring

• Integrates easily with other frameworkso Faceletso Spring Framework



Demonstration


• Connected Weddingso Social platform for planning weddings

o Awarded grant from the Fbfund

o Content managed in Alfresco WCM

o Content delivery through JBoss / Seam / Facelets

o Content Rich

o Ability to personalize

o Integrates with Facebook and other Social Networking Services

o Built to scale out rapidly on FacebookView the full webinar here:tinyurl.com/alfresco-jboss



































Lessons Learned


• Alfresco WCM is best in class for website managemento Independent of content delivery approach

• Facelets based templates are designer-friendly (XHTML)

• Seam conversation scoping is indeed a big advantage in scaling stateful applications.

• XML Description of site has many interesting additional uses including

o Automatic generation of site map including redirectso Very easy method for users to control friendly URLS (vs.

Rewrite rules)



Thank You


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