The document describes GateIn Lightweight Web Content Management (LW WCM), which offers WCM features in a simple way focused on non-developers. It has in-line content editing, flexible content categories, template-based layouts, and security. Content is created through in-line or WCM editors. Templates separate content from layout using WCM tags. The content portlet combines content with templates. Other features include navigation, URLs, security, and versioning control. It is built on GateIn Portal and requires a datasource and filesystem for storage.

1. GateIn lightweight
Web Content Management
(GateIn LW WCM)
October 2013

2. Objectives & motivation
• Offers WCM features in a simple way
• Focus on non-developers profile
• Out-of-the-box sites
• Similar design like others popular
lightweight WCM solutions
Increases GateIn Portal use cases

4. Main features
• In-line edition
• Flexible content categories
• Template's based layout
• Fine grained security
• Simple content portlets

5. Content creation
• In-line edition

6. Content creation
• WCM Editor

7. Flexible content categories
• Folders
• Tagging
• Categories

8. Uploads binary repository
• In-line
preview
• Integrated
in editors

9. Templates
• Separates content from view layout
• Templates based on html and wcm tags
• Focus for web designers
– No Java skills needed !!
• Content portlet combines content with
templates
• Powerful & easy customizations

10. Templates edition
• WCM Editor

11. Templates examples
<wcm-single>
<wcm-title> </wcm-title>
<wcm-excerpt> </wcm-excerpt>
<wcm-content></wcm-content>
</wcm-single>
[...]
<div class="mockup-carousel_items">
<wcm-list class="lwwcm-list-topnews" id="topnews">
<div class="mockup-item-image-topnews">
<wcm-link><wcm-img></wcm-img></wcm-link>
</div>
<div class="mockup-item-label">
<wcm-link class="mockup-item-label-title">
<wcm-title></wcm-title>
</wcm-link>
<p><wcm-excerpt max-length="180"> </wcm-excerpt></p>
</div>
</wcm-list>
[...]

12. Templates engine
Content Portlet
<wcm-single>
<wcm-title> </wcm-title>
<wcm-excerpt> </wcm-excerpt>
<wcm-content></wcm-content>
</wcm-single>
Templates
Posts
<Content>
Posts
<Content>
Posts
<Content>
Images
Categories
Categories
Categories
Combines

13. Other features
• Content navigation
– Inside portlet
– Outside portlet to other portal pages
• Pretty urls
• Fine grained security
– ACLs based on GateIn groups
• Publishing state control
• Comments

14. To finish...
• Versioning control
• Dynamic localization selection
• Auto-categories
• Improve some wcm-* tags
• Small admin use cases

15. Technical details

16. Requeriments
• GateIn Portal for JBoss AS7
• Datasource for LW WCM backend
• Filesystem for uploads repository
• No additional 3rd
party dependencies
– Everything used is inside GateIn Portal

17. Business layer
• Domain implemented on JPA
– Infinispan used as 2nd
level cache
• API based en EJB3 Stateless
– Transactions handled by container
– API published to other apps via JNDI
• GateIn Public API
– Organization API
– Navigation API

18. Presentation layer
• Portlets 2.0 + JSP
– MVC pattern with AJAX services
• JavaScript + JQuery
• CSS
– Bootstrap icons
• CKEditor
– Added plugins for WCM integration

19. Summary
• Simple but powerful solution
• Empowers GateIn for WCM scenarios
• No strong 3rd
party dependencies
– Improve robustness
– Simplify maintenance
• More info:
https://github.com/lucasponce/lwwcm