Hippo is an opensource content management system. Hippo has created a cms on top of the Jackrabbit repository. Hippo is not the only cms that does this trick, but it is a big one. With version 7 out there, you can now use some nice features that they have created. This post discusses one of these features in detail, Workflow. I’ll explain what it is, what is can be used for and how you can extend it with business events.
I do want to stress that this is an idea I have about how this can be implemented. I did try it out, but do not consider this as a best practise (yet). See it as inspiration to your own extensions and maybe Hippo will contain something like this in the future.
The idea behind this post came from talks with Allard and Jeroen Reijn, who will write a blog post about a specific part of the solution as I will describe in the post later on.
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