Maxime Thomas - eZBK

eZBK
eZ publish extension
for BKRender

Maxime THOMAS Logica
Thomas SARLANDIE Backelite
eZ Conference 2011 in London
16th of June 2011

About the speakers…
Maxime THOMAS Thomas SARLANDIE

• In charge of the CMS Open Source Business • Co-Founder and CTO of Backelite since 2006
Unit for 2 years at Logica France.

• Consultant on CMS projects, • Author of « Programmation iPhone OS »
industrialization and RIA solutions. (2008)

• Active contributor in the Apache Zeta
Component community. • Over 40+ mobile projects (web, iPhone,
Android, iPad) in the last 5 years
• Reviewer of the eZ publish book "eZPublish
4 Enterprise Web Sites Step By Step"
• In charge of BkRender BU since 2010
• Self contractor an eZ Publish extension
editor.

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About our companies…

• Leading Business and technology service
company, employing 39,000 people • Specialist of mobile web and mobile applications
since 2006
• Revenues of £3.7 billion in 2010
• 70p dedicated to mobile design and
• Providing business consulting, systems development
integration and outsourcing to clients around
the world, including many of Europe’s largest
businesses
• Revenus of 4.6 M€ in 2011
• Creating value for clients by successfully
integrating people, business and technology

• Committed to long term collaboration, applying
insight to create innovative answers to clients’
business needs

• Listed on both the London Stock Exchange and • Mobile development platform by Backelite
Euronext (Amsterdam)


Agenda

• Company details

• Context and stakes

• Overview of the solution

• Rules for integration

• Feedback on XTEND platform integration


Mobile will be the next major technology


Your mobile strategy in three steps

• Build a great mobile site
• Modern mobile web technologies
allow you to build a great user
experience
• The mobile web is not dead!

• Use hybrid applications to publish
your site on application stores
• The quickest road to a wide
audience
• A flexible model

• Integrate mobile into your
technical strategy
• Use your existing tools and
platforms
• Leverage the skills of your
developers


One content platform for all devices

• Extend the web to the mobile
devices Web
User

• Reuse of content
Platform

• Aim different audience Web Mobile
content content

• Shorter time to market

• Reduced cost for new content
based features

Mobile Mobile Mobile Mobile
User User User User
Device A Device B Device C Device D


BKRender – The rendering platform

BkRender is a development solution
to build great mobile sites

• App-like user experience thanks to
JS/CSS3
• Automatic adaptation on every mobile
devices

That are available to every mobile users
• Through any mobile browsers
• And in the stores thanks to hybrid
applications

And is extremely cost effective
• Develop once – publish on every
platforms
• Leverage your existing teams and
code
• Save time on device-testing


BKRender – Compared to other solutions

Compared to JavaScript based frameworks

• Server side adaptation
• 100% support of mobile browsers
• Simply upgrade to support new devices

• Developer friendly
• The easiest learning curve
• Leverage existing code
• Avoid mobile-JavaScript complexity

BkRender hybrid applications can leverage
PhoneGap wide API coverage

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Architecture of our solution
The whole thing

Mobile Web
User User

eZBK

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BKRender side

J2EE Mobile
Server DB
Mobile
User HTTP
HTTP

Application
Device Optimized
HTML + CSS + JS
BKML

eZBK


eZPublish side

eZBK extension

Web
User

HTTP HTTP

Mobile

BKML Web HTML

Site accesses

eZBK


Our solution : eZBK, extension for eZ Publish

The aim of eZBK is to provide a starter kit for people who wants to
use BKRender with eZPublish.

The extensions contains :

• Override templates for the ezflow package and the basic classes of
content (datatypes, full views…) which can be used as examples

• Basic code to ensure compatibility between BKML and eZ Publish and
provide support to developpers:

• Debug ouput handler
• Content type header
• Special override of operator attribute
• Special operator to generates images with text


Rules to
follow
for a proper integration

Rules to follow
for a proper integation

• Make first the BKML, then the eZ templates

• Use Firefox plugin User Agent Switcher

• BKML looks like HTML: it is a neutral language used by BKRender

• It has its own rules with its own markups
• You have restriction on :
• CSS and JS integration
• Image size, most of the time
• Table size

• BKRender provides many features (transitions, browsing…)

• BKRender can use AJAX a lot without integrating it in eZ Publish


Our feedback on XTEND

The aim of XTEND is to provide
through the eZ Market place
extensions of great added value
in a complementary business to
Content Management.

• eZ Systems provides :
• Host for sources
• Certification process
• Marketing materials

• We provide :
• Source ☺
• Support
• Documentation


The ezPublish extension: ezBK
is in certification by ez

BkRender can be tried online
at bkrender.com/trial
Thank you
Follow us:
Maxime THOMAS @wascou
Thomas SARLANDIE
@sarfata
@bkrender

Logica is a business and technology service company, employing 39,000 people. It provides business consulting, systems integration and outsourcing to
clients around the world, including many of Europe's largest businesses. Logica creates value for clients by successfully integrating people, business and
technology. It is committed to long term collaboration, applying insight to create innovative answers to clients’ business needs. Logica is listed on both the
London Stock Exchange and Euronext (Amsterdam) (LSE: LOG; Euronext: LOG). More information is available at www.logica.com

Maxime Thomas - eZBK

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