5 ways to build asset centric applications

Lars Trieloff, Product Manager

5 ways to build asset centric applications

Henry Stewart DAM Show, NYC 2008

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Hello, my name is Lars Trieloff

! Product Manager Collaboration and Digital Asset Management

! With Day since November 2007

! Background:

! Open Source Software Development

! Collaboration Software

! Technical Documentation (DocBook)

! Blogging

! IT Systems Engineering

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What makes Day a great company?

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Standards & Open Source

Apache


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YouManage documents, images, videos, sound clips

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Youhundreds, thousands, ten thousands, hundred thousands

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Youprotect a brand, share media

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implementing digital asset management takes

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Digital Asset Management is not alone

you need to integrate

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How?13

From Digital Asset Management to

Asset Centric Applications

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Java Content Repository

A place for content: documents, files, web sites, blogs, wikis, videos, metadata

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Best of both worlds

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database filesystem

content repository

read

write

hier-archiesstreams

locking accesscontrol

integrity structure

tx query

un-structured “full-

text” sortorder

versioning

obser-vation

multi-value

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How to get it?

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Apache Jackrabbit or Day CRX1

REST

The Architecture of the Web2

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Resource

URI

Representation Representation

Representation

Four Simple Methods

Unlimited Resources2

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ResourceGET DELETE

PUT

POST

AJAX

Interactive client-side web applications

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How to get it?

Dojo, YUI, jQuery, Ext JS3

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OSGi

Component and Plugin Standard for Java

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OSGi - Extension Points

Applications provide extension points - interfaces to implement

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OSGi - Bundles

Plugin developers provide bundles that plug in to extension points

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OSGi - Bundles

Bundles can define own extension points

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OSGi - Container

Container handles deployment, configuration, etc. without restarts

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How to get it?

Eclipse Equinox or Apache Felix4

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Sling

Sling delivers JCR, REST, AJAX and OSGi in a box

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What is Sling?

Sling is a web application framework for

content centric applications.

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What is Sling?



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REST!

What is Sling?



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REST!

JCR!

What does Sling do for me?

Sling resolves content, creates different representations through templates and servlets and makes content interactive through scripts

and servlets.

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Administratability

Sling uses OSGi for extensibility and comes with administration and development tools.

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Developer Friendliness

Sling’s extensive scripting and AJAX support allow for rapid development

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Server-side Scripting Support AJAX Scripting Support

Where to get it?

Apache Sling or CRX Quickstart5

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Nice, but...

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do I have to build everything else on my own?

Communiqué DAM

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Digital Asset Management and Asset Centric Applications on one common enterprise-grade

Platform

CRX-based Repository

Share content with other applications, use connectors to access legacy repositories

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REST

Publish content via Web, WebDAV or Windows File Sharing (CIFS)

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AJAX

Rich, desktop-like user experience, drag and drop, no delay

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OSGi

Infinite extensibility for media handlers, workflows, user interfaces, exporters

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Communiqué DAM

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