1. eZBK
eZ publish extension
for BKRender
Maxime THOMAS Logica
Thomas SARLANDIE Backelite
eZ Conference 2011 in London
16th of June 2011

2. About the speakers…
Maxime THOMAS Thomas SARLANDIE
• In charge of the CMS Open Source Business • Co-Founder and CTO of Backelite since 2006
Unit for 2 years at Logica France.
• Consultant on CMS projects, • Author of « Programmation iPhone OS »
industrialization and RIA solutions. (2008)
• Active contributor in the Apache Zeta
Component community. • Over 40+ mobile projects (web, iPhone,
Android, iPad) in the last 5 years
• Reviewer of the eZ publish book "eZPublish
4 Enterprise Web Sites Step By Step"
• In charge of BkRender BU since 2010
• Self contractor an eZ Publish extension
editor.
© Logica 2011. All rights reserved No. 2

3. About our companies…
• Leading Business and technology service
company, employing 39,000 people • Specialist of mobile web and mobile applications
since 2006
• Revenues of £3.7 billion in 2010
• 70p dedicated to mobile design and
• Providing business consulting, systems development
integration and outsourcing to clients around
the world, including many of Europe’s largest
businesses
• Revenus of 4.6 M€ in 2011
• Creating value for clients by successfully
integrating people, business and technology
• Committed to long term collaboration, applying
insight to create innovative answers to clients’
business needs
• Listed on both the London Stock Exchange and • Mobile development platform by Backelite
Euronext (Amsterdam)
© Logica 2011. All rights reserved No. 3

4. Agenda
• Company details
• Context and stakes
• Overview of the solution
• Rules for integration
• Feedback on XTEND platform integration
© Logica 2011. All rights reserved No. 4

5. Context and
Stakes

6. Mobile will be the next major technology
© Logica 2011. All rights reserved No. 6

7. Your mobile strategy in three steps
• Build a great mobile site
• Modern mobile web technologies
allow you to build a great user
experience
• The mobile web is not dead!
• Use hybrid applications to publish
your site on application stores
• The quickest road to a wide
audience
• A flexible model
• Integrate mobile into your
technical strategy
• Use your existing tools and
platforms
• Leverage the skills of your
developers
© Logica 2011. All rights reserved No. 7

8. One content platform for all devices
• Extend the web to the mobile
devices Web
User
• Reuse of content
Platform
• Aim different audience Web Mobile
content content
• Shorter time to market
• Reduced cost for new content
based features
Mobile Mobile Mobile Mobile
User User User User
Device A Device B Device C Device D
© Logica 2011. All rights reserved No. 8

9. Overview of
the solution

10. BKRender – The rendering platform
BkRender is a development solution
to build great mobile sites
• App-like user experience thanks to
JS/CSS3
• Automatic adaptation on every mobile
devices
That are available to every mobile users
• Through any mobile browsers
• And in the stores thanks to hybrid
applications
And is extremely cost effective
• Develop once – publish on every
platforms
• Leverage your existing teams and
code
• Save time on device-testing
© Logica 2011. All rights reserved No. 10

11. BKRender – Compared to other solutions
Compared to JavaScript based frameworks
• Server side adaptation
• 100% support of mobile browsers
• Simply upgrade to support new devices
• Developer friendly
• The easiest learning curve
• Leverage existing code
• Avoid mobile-JavaScript complexity
BkRender hybrid applications can leverage
PhoneGap wide API coverage
© Logica <YEAR>. All rights reserved No. 11

12. Architecture of our solution
The whole thing
Mobile Web
User User
eZBK
© Logica 2011. All rights reserved

13. Architecture of our solution
BKRender side
J2EE Mobile
Server DB
Mobile
User HTTP
HTTP
Application
Device Optimized
HTML + CSS + JS
BKML
eZBK
© Logica 2011. All rights reserved No. 13

14. Architecture of our solution
eZPublish side
eZBK extension
Web
User
HTTP HTTP
Mobile
BKML Web HTML
Site accesses
eZBK
© Logica 2011. All rights reserved No. 14

15. Our solution : eZBK, extension for eZ Publish
The aim of eZBK is to provide a starter kit for people who wants to
use BKRender with eZPublish.
The extensions contains :
• Override templates for the ezflow package and the basic classes of
content (datatypes, full views…) which can be used as examples
• Basic code to ensure compatibility between BKML and eZ Publish and
provide support to developpers:
• Debug ouput handler
• Content type header
• Special override of operator attribute
• Special operator to generates images with text
© Logica 2011. All rights reserved

16. Demo !

17. Rules to
follow
for a proper integration

18. Rules to follow
for a proper integation
• Make first the BKML, then the eZ templates
• Use Firefox plugin User Agent Switcher
• BKML looks like HTML: it is a neutral language used by BKRender
• It has its own rules with its own markups
• You have restriction on :
• CSS and JS integration
• Image size, most of the time
• Table size
• BKRender provides many features (transitions, browsing…)
• BKRender can use AJAX a lot without integrating it in eZ Publish
© Logica 2011. All rights reserved

19. Feedback on
XTEND

20. Our feedback on XTEND
The aim of XTEND is to provide
through the eZ Market place
extensions of great added value
in a complementary business to
Content Management.
• eZ Systems provides :
• Host for sources
• Certification process
• Marketing materials
• We provide :
• Source ☺
• Support
• Documentation
© Logica 2011. All rights reserved No. 20

21. The ezPublish extension: ezBK
is in certification by ez
BkRender can be tried online
at bkrender.com/trial
Thank you
Follow us:
Maxime THOMAS @wascou
Thomas SARLANDIE
@sarfata
@bkrender
Logica is a business and technology service company, employing 39,000 people. It provides business consulting, systems integration and outsourcing to
clients around the world, including many of Europe's largest businesses. Logica creates value for clients by successfully integrating people, business and
technology. It is committed to long term collaboration, applying insight to create innovative answers to clients’ business needs. Logica is listed on both the
London Stock Exchange and Euronext (Amsterdam) (LSE: LOG; Euronext: LOG). More information is available at www.logica.com