This document discusses various ways of integrating Plone with other applications and technologies. It provides examples of integrating Plone with .NET, Moodle, WordPress, and Collective XDV. Specific technologies and frameworks discussed include Deliverance for dynamically reskinning legacy applications, Jython for integrating Plone and Java, and IronPython for integrating Plone and .NET applications like Mono. The presentation argues that Plone can be integrated with a wide variety of technologies and applications.

1. menttes
Integrando Plone con
cuAlquier
cosa
Roberto Allende
rallende@menttes.com
http://robertoallende.com
http://twitter.com/robertoallende
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2. Ustedes

3. Operating System Wars
Linux
Windows Mac
Windows

4. Plone OS Way
Linux + Plone
Mac + Plone
Windows + Plone

5. Text Editor Wars
Vim
Windows Emacs
Eclipse

6. Plone text editor Way
Vim + Plone
Emacs + Plone
Eclipse + Plone

7. Browser Wars
Firefox
Safari
Opera
Chrome
IE

8. Plone Browser Way
Firefox + Plone
Safari + Plone
Opera + Plone
Chrome + Plone
IE + Plone

9. Cómo integramos Plone
con otras aplicaciones o tecnologías
Windows
?

10. Integrar Plone con
cualquier cosa
Windows Matt Hamilton
Carlos de la Guardia
Roberto Allende → (integrador)

11. Presentación
Model / Datos
Windows

12. Caso 1: Moodle + .Net + Plone
Windows
Presentación

13. xdvtheme.inventions
Deliverance / Collective.XDV
Recusos Estaticos
PLONE HTML / CSS

14. Pintandole los
labios al puerco
Dynamically re-skinning a
legacy .NET portal with python
Matt Hamilton
matth@netsight.co.uk

15. Introduction
 Dynamically re-skinning a .NET portal site
 Can't name the client
 Portal for teachers in the UK
 Aggregating content across legacy portal,
Plone and Moodle

16. Existing Portal (1.0)

Five years old by November 2009

User registrations: 46,681

Course enrolments: 33,664

Resource Bank views: 247,911

17. Existing Portal (1.0)

18. Problems with Current Portal

Look-and-feel
→
Not very compelling

Usability
→
Challenging in places

A poor content management system
→
Can't really edit general content, so use a separate FTP
server and Dreamweaver

Vendor lock-in
→
Even small changes, very expensive

19. The Future - Portal 2.0

Usability, Design and Content Review April
2008

Strategic Review August 2008

Feasibility Studies Jan 2009

Pilot Demonstrator (“Portal V1.5”) March 2009

20. Design Review

21. Architecture Review

Portal 1.0 - Monolithic, tightly coupled, poor
separation of skin

22. Architecture Review

Portal 2.0 - Extensible, loosely coupled, good
separation of skin

23. How Do We Get There?
Remember: We Can't Touch the Existing System!

24. The Cunning Plan
Browser
Portal 1.0
Existing Skin 1.0
Portal Module
of
function
ality
e.g.
portfoli
o

25. Total Skin Graft!
New skin
Browser via xpath
and xslt
transform
web server
ation.
Skin 2.0 transformation
Portal 1.5
proxy
Web
server
needs to
handle
Skin 1.0 SSL.
Together
they give
us nice
URLs.

26. Deliverance

Several Different Projects
→
xdv
→
Deliverance 0.3
To learn more on specifics of Deliverance go to
http://deliverance.openplans.org

27. Result

Old
→
70kb of HTML
→
120 Validation errors, 61 warnings

New
→
40Kb of HTML
→
27 Errors, 1 warning (mainly xhtml/html conflicts)
→
No significant performance impact

28. Putting all together
Composite:main
pipeline:portal pipeline:plone pipeline:moodl
e
theme.content theme.content theme.content
xslt navmerger navmerger
linkrewrite plonecontent moodlecontent
htmlcleaner source.plone source.moodle
source.portal

29. End Result New Style
Portal
content

30. Caso 2: Coactivate

31. Coactivate: Plone

32. Coactivate: Wordpress

33. xdvtheme.inventions
<proxy path="/news" class="inner">
<dest href="http://localhost:55000/VirtualHostBase/
{wsgi.url_scheme}/{HTTP_HOST}/mysite/news/VirtualHostRoot" />
</proxy>
<rule class="inner" suppress-standard="1">
<theme href="/static/inner.html" />

34. Caso 3: collective XDV

35. xdvtheme.inventions

36. xdvtheme.inventions
<rules xmlns="http://openplans.org/deliverance">
<!-- title -->
<replace content='/html/head/title'
theme='/html/head/title' />
<!-- content area -->
<copy content='//*[@id="content"]'
theme='//*[@id="leftcolumn"]' />
<copy content='//*[@id="portal-globalnav"]'
theme='//*[@id="links"]' />
<!-- Portlets -->
<copy content='//*[@id="portal-column-two"]'
theme='//*[@id="rightcolumn"]' />
<drop content='//*/dl/dd/a/img' />
</rules>

37. xdvtheme.inventions

38. xdvtheme.inventions

39. http://plone.org/products/xdvtheme.inventions/

40. Presentación Deliverance
Model / Datos ContentMirror
Windows

41. Plone + salesforce ?

42. Plone + jython + java ?

43. Plone + ironpython ?

44. Plone + ironpython + mono ?

45. Muchas gracias
Roberto Allende
menttes
rallende@menttes.com
http://robertoallende.com
http://twitter.com/robertoallende
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