JBoss World 2012 Boston, 27/06/2012

2. Extending JBoss EPP and
Site Publisher your way
Rafael Liu
Technical Account Manager, Red Hat
06.27.12

3. Agenda
● 5 minutes intro
● JBoss EPP
● Customizing EPP
● Kernel
● Portal Containers
● Demo
● JBoss SP
● Customizing SP
● Customization features
● Demo

4. A comprehensive portal solution
● JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform
● Reusable drag & drop portlets
● Authn/authz and user management
● Use standards
● Pluggable
● JBoss Site Publisher
● Content Management System
● All through GUI: no code, no file editing, no deploy
● Content publishing, versioning, collaboration, etc.

5. Customizing EPP
● Services / components
● Provide some functionality
● e.g.: JCR access, user management
● Configurable
● Reusable
● Built on top of a kernel
● Changing or creating Portal Containers

6. Kernel
● IoC container (PicoContainer)
● Declare services
● Plugin configurations
● classpath:/conf/configuration.xml
● NOTE: restricted support

7. Kernel – Declaring new sevices
<component>
<key>org.exoplatform.container.definition.PortalContainerConfig</key>
<type>o.e.c.d.PortalContainerConfigImpl</type>
<init-params>
<value-param>
<name>default.portal.container</name>
<value>portal</value>
</value-param>
<value-param>
<name>default.rest.context</name>
<value>rest</value>
</value-param>
<value-param>
<name>default.realm.name</name>
<value>gatein-domain</value>
</value-param>
...
</init-params>
</component>

8. Kernel – Plugin configuration
<external-component-plugins>
<target-component>o.e.c.d.PortalContainerConfig</target-component>
<component-plugin>
<name>Change PortalContainer Definitions</name>
<set-method>registerChangePlugin</set-method>
<type>o.e.c.d.PortalContainerDefinitionChangePlugin</type>
<init-params>
<values-param>
<name>apply.specific</name>
<value>portal</value>
</values-param>
...
</init-params>
</component-plugin>
</external-component-plugins>

9. Kernel – Using services
public class SimpleResourceBundleService extends BaseResourceBundleService
{
public SimpleResourceBundleService(
InitParams params,
CacheService cService,
LocaleConfigService localeService) throws Exception
{
log_ = ExoLogger.getLogger("org.exoplatform.services.resources");
localeService_ = localeService;
cache_ = cService.getCacheInstance(ResourceBundleData.class);
initParams(params);
}
...
}

10. Kernel – Some EPP services
● TemplateService ● UserPortalConfigService
● SkinService ● NavigationService
● RepositoryService ● ApplicationRegistryService
● UploadService ● PicketLinkIDMCacheService
● LocaleConfigService ● PicketLinkIDMService
● ResourceBundleService ● ApplicationStatisticService
● GadgetRegistryService ● AccountService
● CatalogService ● GateInService
● ...

11. What are Portal Containers?
● Servlet Context
● http://localhost:8080/<portalcontainer>/<site>
● Rest context
● http://localhost:8080/<restcontainer>
● Realm / Security Domain

12. What are Portal Containers really?
● EAR packages
● Configuration (extension)
● Libraries (services)
● Web Content (files)
● Create Portal Containers
● Resource overriding
● Extend Portal Containers
● Different IoC container, isolated set of services

13. Demo EPP

14. Customizing SP
● A big extension!
● A set o new Portlets & Services
● Reuses EPP's base services
● A different Portal Container: /ecmdemo
● Configure services, import portlets and create pages
● All EPP customizations are here
● Customization features
● Extension points

15. Customization features
● Administration
● Nodetypes
● Inheritance, aggregation, mixins, properties
● Templates
● Groovy
● View & Edit
● Actions
● Groovy
● org.exoplatform.services.cms.scripts.CmsScript

16. Demo SP

17. Conclusion
● You can extend EPP & SP through Portal Extensions
● ... or create whole new Portal Containers
● Access core features using built-in services
● Besides, SP lets you:
● Create new types of contents
● Create or change how content is presented
● Script actions to handle content lifecycle events
● Sources: github.com/rafaelliu

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