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Speeding up Hippo development
Smile Benelux
Ebrahim aharpour

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Overview
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Automation
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Reusability
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Standardization
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Elemenation of repeated
configuration
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Manifesto of reusable Catalogs

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Automation - challenges
In the past Hippo Development
involved some rather boring
mechanical tasks namely:
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Persisting of configuration to XML files
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Creation of Hippo Beans

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Automation - solution
Hippo Maven Plugin
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Auto generates beans base on
Content types
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Reloads beans on runtime via JRebel
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Generated bean can be extended or
overwritten
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It is plug-able and extendable

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Reusability - challenges

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Reusability - solution
Hippo prototype
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Content (a collection of reusable
data model fragment)
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Front-end (a collection of
components, utility class and a tag
library)
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Plugin support (a collection of tools to
easily set up data import or
synchronization modules, It takes
advantage of bean mapper)

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Standardization - challenges
Do you have an out of control project
where its original developer team are
no longer available and no one of
your developers is familiar its the
code?

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Standardization - Solution
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Strict naming conventions
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Standard project layout
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Standard solutions to typical problems
(Overview pages, Navigation,
Tabbed pages and etc.)

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Standardization - benefits
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Easy of maintenance (specially long
term)
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Interchangeability of development
team members
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Increased productivity

Consistent quality

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Elemenation of configuration - challenges
One of the most time consuming
aspects of Hippo development is
configuration.

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Elemenation of configuration - Solution
Smile Hippo Archetype
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The most common plugins are pre-installed
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Selection plugin
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EasyForms
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Content blocks
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Etc.
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Many common features
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Faceted search
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Breadcrumb
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Repository base navigation
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Sitmap page & sitemap.xml
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Search suggestions
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Etc.
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Hippo prototype

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Elemenation of configuration - Solution
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Pre-configure deployment set up
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MySQL
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Clustering
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Janitor configuration
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A number of flexible catalogs
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EasyForms
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Google maps
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Carousel
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Latest items
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RSS feed aggregator
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DISQUS
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Video
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YouTube
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Hippo Maven plug-in

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Manifesto of reusable Catalogs
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Multiple instances of a catalog most be able to be
present on a single page without interference with
one another
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Should be Webrichtlijnen complaint if possible
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As configurable as possible, but the default
configuration must cover the most common use
case
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Mixin support if applicable
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Must encapsulate its own css and js files.
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Must support responsive design
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Must give proper feedback in the channel manager
in case it is not being rendered for any reason

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Conclusion
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Mindset
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Way of working
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Tooling
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Hippo Maven Plugin
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Smile Hippo Archtype
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Hippo Prototype

HST mixin support module

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Links
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https://sourceforge.net/projects/smilearchetype/ (Smile
Hippo archetype)
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http://mavenhippo.sourceforge.net (Hippo Maven
plugin)
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/hippoprototype/ (Hippo
prototype)
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/hstmixinsupport/ (HST
mixin support module)
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https://forge.onehippo.org/gf/project/beanmapper/
(Bean Mapper)

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QA
QA