At the 2nd Skopje Tech Meetup, March 18th 2015, our Senior Java Developer Nikola Vasilev presented Java Development with Magnolia CMS. The presentation included a live demo of Magnolia.

1. Tricode BV
De Schutterij 12 -18
3905 PL Veenendaal
The Netherlands
tel: 0318 - 559210
fax: 0318 - 650909
www.tricode.nl
info@tricode.nl
Developing with
Magnolia CMS 5
Nikola Vasilev
18.03.2015
Skopje, Macedonia

2. Agenda
• Short Intro in Magnolia 5
• Modular Approach
• Author and Public Instances
• The Tricode Events sample project
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3. Short Intro in Magnolia CMS 5
• Short Intro Into CMS
• Based on Java Content Repository
• JCR2: JSR-283
• Editions
• Magnolia CE: Open Source (GPLv3)
• Magnolia EE: Enterprise license needed
• Content Apps
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4. The JCR Repository
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5. Modular Approach
● Magnolia CMS uses Maven
● Magnolia CMS allows creating of a custom
modules using maven
● Maven archetypes provided by Magnolia
○ Parent project + empty web app
○ Magnolia standard module
○ Magnolia Blossom module
○ Magnolia STK theme module
○ Magnolia Forge module (community based)
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6. A Magnolia Module
• Is a Maven module too. But a Maven module is
not a Magnolia module.
• Is specified by its module descriptor file.
• May have a dedicated module class which may
implement ModuleLifecycle
• May install configuration from
src/main/resources/mgnl-
bootstrap/<module-name>.
• May have a ModuleVersionHandler.
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7. Magnolia Module Structure
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8. Author and Public
Instances
• Author instance is where editors work
• The author instance publishes the content to the
public instance
• The public instance receives the content and
serves that content to the visitors on the Web
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9. Author and Public
Instances - Benefits
• Security
• Loose coupling
• Scalability
• Flexibility
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10. A Typical Configuration
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11. ● Uses Magnolia CMS 5.3.7 Community Edition
● Uses an open source templating project
○ Magnolia templating kit based on Foundation
framework for Sites
○ https://github.com/gtenham/magnolia-templating
○ Responsive frontend framework
● Created an events app
● Created an events page and events grid
component
The Tricode Events Project
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12. The Tricode Events Project
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13. Questions
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