AgileSites 2 introduces several new features to improve the agile development process including AgileBuilder for automated installation, jar and static publishing for more efficient deployment, a Java content model for easier content modeling, support for multi-project development, and tools for continuous integration and better versioning. Key updates include using Vagrant machines for consistent development environments, publishing static assets and application logic as publishable assets, and recreating site states from the Java content model.

1. AgileSites 2
what is new
in Agile development
with WebCenter Sites
Michele Sciabarra
michele@sciabarra.com
Sciabarra.com – Just Add Content
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2. What is new, then?
• AgileBuilder
• cloud automation & develoment vm
• Jar & Static Publishing
• smooth deploy
• Java Content Model
• Consistent and easier content modelling
• Multiproject & Binary Releases
• Better Versioning and Continuos Integration
• Tools improvements
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3. AgileBuilder
• Kit for Automated installation of Sites
• Deploy in the cloud
• Vagrant machines for development
• Same scripts for production and development!
• Multiple enviroments
• With and without Vagrant
• Tomcat / Weblogic
• HSQLDB / Oracle
• OSX / Linux
• 11.1.1.6.1 and 11.1.1.8.0
• Upcoming Windows support
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4. Jar Publishing
• AgileSites logic is in Java
• The build kit produces a Jar
• Jar is deployed as an Asset
• Jar is publishable
• JSP stubs picks the code in the Jar
• Result:
• An AgileSites website is fully publishable as any other
Sites site
• It is even better because it also publish Statics!
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5. Static publishing
• Static assets are traditionally managed
“manually”
• AgileSites define a Static asset
• Statics can be imported as assets
• Statics are publishable
• Statics are directly served by BlobServer
• Pretty efficient
• Bonus: finger printing
• Automatic generation of hash values:
• https://site.com/statics/telmore/css/site.min_6081b90e5e512
89d82a9bea08c977064.css
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6. Java Content Model
• Sample of defining the content model in Java
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7. Java Content Model goodies
• It can initialize the site and enable the types
• And create the flex family too
• It Preserves the ID
• Ids are generated hashing the names
• Supports Start Menu and Attribute Editors
• Defining the combination of StartMenu/Type/Subtype
as a whole
• It can import custom attribute editors
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8. Binary releases
• AgileSites 2 is now split in multiple jars:
• Core
• Where the magic happens
• Api
• All the goodies of a simpler development
• Plugin
• The toolchain of the framework
• App
• Your actual code base
• Core, Api and Plugin are independent jar
• Published as jars on a Nexus repository
• You can import the jars with Maven and other tools
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9. Multi Project
• Simplified Workflow
• A project download dependencies from repository
• lib, core and plugin
• The shell can install Sites locally (or use a JSK)
• You deploy everthing in your local Sites
• Including you code as Jar and the Statics
• From there you can just publish to other enviroments
• You can have multiple independent projects with one
site each
• Each project can generate an independent jar
• Multiple jars must share same core and lib Sites instance
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10. Continuous Integration
• The continuos integration is now simpler
• A simple command deploys it all
• Content Model
• Statics
• Logic
• Just execute asDeploy with Jenkins
• and you can run a test suite on your code
• Selenium for example
• Or the native Test Runner of AgileSites
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11. Better versioning
• The Java content model is able to recreate the whole
state of a Site!
• It will preserve the ids
• It will update the timestamps
• You can revert to a previous state:
• Dropping a site and reploying will recreate the content
model with the same ids!
• Republishing all the assets (with same ids and update
timestamp) will update all the content model to a newer (or
older) state
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12. Tools Improvements
• Shell can download Sites with a command
• Improved catalog mover support
• Importing catalog content in setup and deploy
• Even adding support tool as a jar dependency!
• Embedded tomcat with proxy support
• Simulate your live enviroment including an apache
proxy
• Weblogic deployer embedded
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13. Do you want to know more?
• Contact us at
• Code is fully open source as usual
• Training is available to partners
• Public documentation will be released later this year
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