BP-5 Application Lifecycle Management

AlfrescoApplication Lifecycle Management Deploy and customize your favourite content platform your way!

AgendaALM & ECM•  Application Lifecycle Management decomposed•  Enterprise ALM scenarios•  ALM requirements for typical Alfresco projectsChoose your flavor for managing your Alfresco lifecycle•  Ad hoc•  Ant + Eclipse SDK•  Maven Alfresco LifecycleDemo•  Build & manage a fully fledged Alfresco 4.x project in 5 minutes

ALM & ECMA FOOL with a TOOL is still a FOOL

What is ALM?Application Lifecycle Management is not just “the build”(although we will focus mostly on that subset)•  Quoting Wikipedia: “Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) is a continuous process of managing the life of an application through governance, development and maintenance. ALM is the marriage of business management to software engineering made possible by tools that facilitate and integrate requirements management, architecture, coding, testing, tracking, and release management.[1]”•  It’s not about the tooling  it’s about how tools are connected to support processes•  Spans through all software & business disciplines

ALM visuals

ALM 1.0 vs ALM 2.0Limitation of ALM 1.0•  The theory of unity •  Tries to solve too many problems at once •  Often offered as monolithic proprietary platform•  Not flexible enough •  With respect to the development technologies •  With respect to the management process (Agile, UP variants …)A vision for ALM 2.0•  Open •  Open source and based on standard (open or de facto) •  Flexible and extensible•  Divide et impera (divide and conquer) •  Start focused and solve general problems incrementally

ECM declination of ALMECM is enterprise (wide)•  Enterprises (should) have standard mature app lifecycle•  Might involve multiple development projects and team•  Key  Cope with complexity over timeECM is a people business•  POC is a common practice•  Process adaptation over imposition•  Key  Fast prototyping and release cyclesECM is open source powered•  Frequent integration of open source products / libraries•  Enable enterprise processes to cope with platform changes•  Key  Dynamic answer to integration requirements & updates

Why Alfresco developers need ALM?Alfresco is a content platform•  Open platform designed for ECM “tailor making”•  Huge spectrum of interdependent projects needing 1.  Creation 2.  Development 3.  Testing and CI 4.  ReleaseAlfresco is growing fast•  In terms of product components & releases•  Typical Alfresco customer penetration phases 1.  POC 2.  Departmental installation 3.  Standard Content Platform for applications 4.  Enterprise CM & Collaboration Foundation

Manual vs. Automated Lifecycle Constant Control Predictable evolutions

Setting the stage5 top objectives for Alfresco ALM1.  IDE Integration2.  Fast prototyping3.  Manage / customize all Alfresco components4.  External product Integration5.  Integration in enterprise process / lifecycle5 top stakeholders for Alfresco ALM1.  Community / Enterprise Developers2.  Project Managers3.  IT / Operations4.  Enterprise Architects5.  Alfresco Support

Flavors of ALM for AlfrescoCause everybody’s free (to wear sunscreen)

Available ApproachesAd hoc •  Based on ad-hoc, potentially manual procedures •  Note: Strongly discouraged, error prone & no ALM coverageFull rebuild •  Rebuild Alfresco starting from Trunk/Tags •  Requires enterprise ready process / need for contributionAnt / Eclipse SDK •  Only fully supported Enterprise approach to date •  Covers mostly build / deployment related use cases •  Limited ALM support, difficult integration in Enterprise processesMaven Alfresco Lifecycle •  Available at http://code.google.com/p/maven-alfresco-archetypes/ •  Community artifacts available at http://maven.alfresco.com

Full rebuild from SourcesRarely needed •  Only in specific contexts •  Community •  Patches •  heavily customized versions •  Enterprise •  Patches  But please check first for hotfixes •  Enterprise practices on software management •  Dangerous •  You might lose support and QA added value•  Check •  http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Alfresco_SVN_Development_Environment•  Basically at your own risk ! 

Alfresco SDKAvailable with every CE / EE releasehttp://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Alfresco_SDKFeatures•  Integrated with Eclipse•  Builds with Ant•  Alfresco & 3rd party libraries available in classpath•  Possible to attach sources & javadoc•  Offer samples (amongst others) for •  Custom Repository Extension •  Custom AMP •  Ant script to integrate in an alresco.war

Alfresco SDK How ToGet ahold of it •  Download it from •  Community: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Alfresco_SDK •  Enterprise: http://support.alfresco.com •  Understand it •  Samples •  SDKAlfrescoRemote & SDKAlfrescoEmbedded projectsUse it •  Import it with Eclipse •  Configure alfresco-global.properties to proper DB/data •  Use the samples •  Custom JSF / Foundation services •  Custom AMP

A good tool to begin with…5 top objectives for Alfresco ALM1.  IDE Integration2.  Fast prototyping3.  Manage / customize all Alfresco components4.  External product Integration5.  Integration in enterprise process / lifecycle5 top stakeholders for Alfresco ALM1.  Community / Enterprise Developers2.  Project Managers3.  IT / Operations4.  Enterprise Architects5.  Alfresco Support Covers only the development & build!

Maven Alfresco LifecycleVision “Provide a flexible standard based approach to support the full lifecycle of an Alfresco application, from inception to release and integration in enterprise processes”State of the nation • Mature project  Releases available since 2009 • Backed by http://maven.alfresco.com • New 4.x compatible release just out! (3.9.0)Get ithttp://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Managing_Alfresco_Lifecyle_with_Maven

Maven Alfresco Lifecycle 4.0Development features•  4.0 ready Multi module archetype •  Repo/Share •  AMPs•  Dependency management•  Integrated support for TDDRuntime features•  Run embedded in favorite appserver•  Per environment separate configurationProcess•  Mandatory integrated versioning!•  Release & distribution for free•  Integration with other ALM tools (e.g. Jira)

Why Maven & Alfresco ?Standard de facto1.  Alfresco (and AMPs / JARs) is a <dependency> away2.  Standard lifecycle commands3.  Foster build reuse & packaging standardization4.  Enable simple integration with OSS J2EE best of breedGet your lifecycle to the next level1.  Support the lifecycle from inception to (maintenance) releases2.  Integrated with code quality & task management tools3.  Scales from single community dev to multiple enterprise teams4.  Legal & Licensing focus5.  Can track usage

In other words…the glue for your process!

Maven Alfresco Lifecycle 4.0Development features•  Multi module archetype •  Repo/Share/Solr •  AMPs•  Dependency management•  Integrated support for TDDRuntime features•  Run embedded in favorite appserver•  Per environment separate configurationProcess•  Mandatory integrated versioning!•  Release & distribution for free•  Integration with other ALM tools (e.g. Jira)

Demo Afresco 4.0 up and running in 2 minutesQuicker than the installer and ready to roll 

Demo objectivesCreate a new Alfresco 4.0 project 1.  Open your favorite Maven compatible IDE  Eclipse 2.  Create a project from prototype  Maven Archetypes 3.  Manage / customize all Alfresco components  Multi module 1.  Alfresco Repository 2.  Alfresco Share 3.  SolrRun it & release it (early and often) 1.  Run in embedded (supported) Tomcat 2.  Manage versioning 3.  Simple 1 command release

Maven Alfresco Lifecycle 4.0Deterministic and reproducible builds •  Zero pre-requisites •  Learning curve as complex as ‘mvn clean install’ •  Suitable for CI serversQuick Testing deployment support •  Embedded run •  Environment safe •  Selenium integrationFlexible •  Valid for starters and evaluators •  Scale to the enterprise •  Non IDE dependent

Alfresco & MavenCommunity Support•  Maven Alfresco Lifecycle Available as of 2007•  Artifacts on http://maven.alfresco.com as of 2009 •  4.x Community artifacts already available •  Using Sonatype Nexus (http://nexus.sonatype.org/)•  Join maven-alfresco@googlegroups.comEnterprise Support1.  Target: 4.x EE deployed on http://maven.alfresco.com 1.  Only JARs / WARs 2.  NO POMs2.  Refreshed version of Maven Alfresco Lifecycle available •  Working to get that integrated as “alternative” SDK

You don’t want to say “it’s just work” ™5 top objectives for Alfresco ALM1.  IDE Integration  Any Maven compatible IDE2.  Fast prototyping  Archetypes3.  Manage / customize all Alfresco components  Multi module4.  External product Integration  Most OSS builds with Maven5.  Integration in enterprise process / lifecycle  Seamless5 top stakeholders for Alfresco ALM1.  Community / Enterprise Developers2.  Project Managers3.  IT / Operations4.  Enterprise Architects5.  Alfresco Support

And now deep in the ALM space…Future integrations 1.  JIRA •  Mylin •  maven-changes-plugin 2.  Hudson 3.  SonarIn the spotlight •  Open Source 1.  CALM  http://code.google.com/p/maven-calm/ 2.  ALM with Maven  http://jabox.org 3.  Web project hosting  http://www.redmine.org/ •  Proprietary •  Insight (http://www.sonatype.com/Products/Sonatype-Insight)

BP-5 Application Lifecycle Management

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