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A perspective on content management

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This is a very short post. Actually it is just a reference to a blog post I have written on another blog. Yes, again another blog. This time it is a blog at my employers website.

The blog post is about my perspective on [...]

Hippo cms workflow with events

HippoWorkflowEvents-small.pngHippo 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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Integrate hippo cms into a spring application

hippo_logo.gifThis article is about integrating the hippo cms with a spring framework application. To be honest, the amount of integration is very easy if you know how to configure the api that is provided by hippo. So what are we going to do? In this article I am going to describe the high level architecture of a normal spring-mvc application that makes use of the hippo api to store and obtain content from the hippo content repository.

For this article I have made use of the hippo 6 version. Things might change a lot when you are dealing with hippo 7. Starting release 7, hippo is fully compliant with the Java Content Repository API.

Continue reading if you want to learn about how to integrate hippo 6 with springframework.

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