Integrating Kona Kart with Magnolia

Magnolia KonaKart Integration
headwire.com, Inc
Ruben Reusser, CTO
ruben@headwire.com

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Topics
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What is it
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Magnolia
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KonaKart
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Magnolia & KonaKart
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Approaches
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KonaKart SOAP API
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Direct Integration
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Implementation
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Merging the Applications
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Modification to Struts
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Setting up the Pages
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Installation
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Styles
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Demo
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Where to get it
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Questions


Who am I?

Ruben Reusser, CTO headwire.com, Inc

headwire is a firm targeting cms based websites and
cms based applications.

We offer solutions that combine a WCM and customer
secific applications into one platform.

We treat the view of an application as content and
allow our customers to manage them through a
content management system.

We target Java and JCR based systems.


What is it?

The Magnolia KonaKart Module targets websites with
a shopping cart solution and the need for a WCM.


Magnolia

Magnolia is a mature WCM based on JCR and Java.
It's flexibility is a great core that can be extended
and allows us to add application specific functionality
with ease.


KonaKart

KonaKart is a mature and full fledged struts based
shopping cart solution written in Java with a
hibernate based database backend.

KonaKart supports pricing, shipping and payment
gateways out of the box as well as a great set of
other features such as reviews, product bundling,
wishlists, etc.

It is able to handle a large set of customer
requirements out of the box.


Magnolia & KonaKart

The vision of this module was to bring features from
both applications together.

KonaKart can provide the shopping cart solution
missing in Magnolia

Magnolia can provide the ease of managing the web
part and styling a KonaKart shopping solution.


Demo

Quick Demonstration of KonaKart features
Quick Demonstration of Magnolia features


Demo


Approaches

Multiple approaches are available to integrate
KonaKart and Magnolia – both applications provide
features that can be used.

- JSR168 portal support by Magnolia and KonaKart
- KonaKart SOAP API


JSR168 Portlet Support

KonaKart and Magnolia both support the JSR168
Portlet standard.

Pro:
- easy to integrate with a portal server

Con:
- needs an additional application
- style for KonaKart and Magnolia need to be merged
- no fine grained control over the KonaKart solution


JSR168 Portlet Support


SOAP API Integration

KonaKart provides a SOAP API to access all
functionalities provided by KonaKart.

Pros:
- Able to impletement pages and paragraphs in
Magnolia to fully support all functions from KonaKart

Cons:
- The view of the KonaKart application as well as
error handling has to be rewritten


Merge

KonaKart and Magnolia are both J2EE applications.
There are no conflicts between the applications
(version of dependent libraries, etc).

Pros:
- Both applications can be merged with little effort
- Ability to fully reuse all the view components from
KonaKart within Magnolia

Cons:
- future releases may cause conflicts in dependent
libraries


Implementation

A SOAP Version of the integration was first developed
for a customer. The integration works, however not
that feature rich.

To promote good reuse of the exising KonaKart code
within Magnolia the approach to merge the two
projects was chosen.

POC showed no conflicts and fast progress in
developing necessary adjustments within Magnolia.


Merging the Applications

The main problems in merging the applications are
the web.xml files – both apps need to be able to run.

> Magnolia Filter Chain vs Struts



View Actions are moved to Magnolia

Instead of
<action path="/CatalogLogInPage" forward="catalog.login.page"/>

Configuration is in Magnolia


Setting up Pages

All pages can then be set up within Magnolia and
moved to an appropriate location.

All struts tiles are available as paragraphs


Setting up Pages


Installation

- download and install KonaKart

- download the Magnolia bundled WAR file

- run the Magnolia KonaKart ant script

> results in a combined WAR file

- use the war file with tomcat or import into eclipse

- place the KonaKart filter right below logout filter


Installation


Styles

- The Magnolia KonaKart module can be combined
with the headwire templating module

- choose a style and run the shopping cart solution

DEMO


Styles


Where can I get this?

KonaKart: http://www.konakart.com
Magnolia: http://www.magnolia-cms.com
Magnolia KonaKart Module: http://www.headwire.com

Support:
Best through Magnolia User Mailing list or KonaKart
forums


Questions?


Integrating Kona Kart with Magnolia

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