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Integrating Kona Kart with Magnolia
Jun 26, 2015
Learn how to integrate KonaKart (an open source shopping cart solution) into Magnolia and use Magnolia to control the flow of the KonaKart application with the open source konakart-module for Magnolia.
The module fully integrates the struts based KonaKart application into Magnolia and allows the views of the struts application to be managed within Magnolia. It is a seamless integration between the two products. All KonaKart UI elements are provided as paragraphs within Magnolia and can be used by the content authors to configure the user experience.
This hands on talk will show how one can integrate Kona Kart (an open source shopping cart solution) with Magnolia to provide shopping cart functionality to any Magnolia site with the feature richness provided by Kona Kart.
The module fully integrates the struts based KonaKart application into Magnolia and allows the views of the struts application to be managed within Magnolia. It is a seamless integration between the two products. All KonaKart UI elements are provided as paragraphs within Magnolia and can be used by the content authors to configure the user experience.
This hands on talk will show how one can integrate Kona Kart (an open source shopping cart solution) with Magnolia to provide shopping cart functionality to any Magnolia site with the feature richness provided by Kona Kart.
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Magnolia KonaKart Integrationheadwire.com, IncRuben Reusser, [email protected]
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Topics What is it
Magnolia KonaKart Magnolia & KonaKart
Approaches KonaKart SOAP API Direct Integration
Implementation Merging the Applications Modification to Struts Setting up the Pages
Installation Styles
Demo Where to get it Questions
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Who am I?
Ruben Reusser, CTO headwire.com, Inc
headwire is a firm targeting cms based websites and cms based applications.
We offer solutions that combine a WCM and customer secific applications into one platform.
We treat the view of an application as content and allow our customers to manage them through a content management system.
We target Java and JCR based systems.
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What is it?
The Magnolia KonaKart Module targets websites with a shopping cart solution and the need for a WCM.
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Magnolia
Magnolia is a mature WCM based on JCR and Java. It's flexibility is a great core that can be extended and allows us to add application specific functionality with ease.
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KonaKart
KonaKart is a mature and full fledged struts based shopping cart solution written in Java with a hibernate based database backend.
KonaKart supports pricing, shipping and payment gateways out of the box as well as a great set of other features such as reviews, product bundling, wishlists, etc.
It is able to handle a large set of customer requirements out of the box.
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Magnolia & KonaKart
The vision of this module was to bring features from both applications together.
KonaKart can provide the shopping cart solution missing in Magnolia
Magnolia can provide the ease of managing the web part and styling a KonaKart shopping solution.
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Demo
Quick Demonstration of KonaKart featuresQuick Demonstration of Magnolia features
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Approaches
Multiple approaches are available to integrate KonaKart and Magnolia – both applications provide features that can be used.
- JSR168 portal support by Magnolia and KonaKart- KonaKart SOAP API
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JSR168 Portlet Support
KonaKart and Magnolia both support the JSR168 Portlet standard.
Pro:- easy to integrate with a portal server
Con: - needs an additional application - style for KonaKart and Magnolia need to be merged- no fine grained control over the KonaKart solution
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JSR168 Portlet Support
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SOAP API Integration
KonaKart provides a SOAP API to access all functionalities provided by KonaKart.
Pros: - Able to impletement pages and paragraphs in Magnolia to fully support all functions from KonaKart
Cons:- The view of the KonaKart application as well as error handling has to be rewritten
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Merge
KonaKart and Magnolia are both J2EE applications. There are no conflicts between the applications (version of dependent libraries, etc).
Pros: - Both applications can be merged with little effort- Ability to fully reuse all the view components from KonaKart within Magnolia
Cons:- future releases may cause conflicts in dependent libraries
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Implementation
A SOAP Version of the integration was first developed for a customer. The integration works, however not that feature rich.
To promote good reuse of the exising KonaKart code within Magnolia the approach to merge the two projects was chosen.
POC showed no conflicts and fast progress in developing necessary adjustments within Magnolia.
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Merging the Applications
The main problems in merging the applications are the web.xml files – both apps need to be able to run.
> Magnolia Filter Chain vs Struts
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Modification to Struts
View Actions are moved to Magnolia
Instead of
<action path="/CatalogLogInPage" forward="catalog.login.page"/>
Configuration is in Magnolia
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Modification to Struts
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Setting up Pages
All pages can then be set up within Magnolia and moved to an appropriate location.
All struts tiles are available as paragraphs
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Setting up Pages
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Setting up Pages
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Installation
- download and install KonaKart
- download the Magnolia bundled WAR file
- run the Magnolia KonaKart ant script
> results in a combined WAR file
- use the war file with tomcat or import into eclipse
- place the KonaKart filter right below logout filter
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Styles
- The Magnolia KonaKart module can be combined with the headwire templating module
- choose a style and run the shopping cart solution
DEMO
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Where can I get this?
KonaKart: http://www.konakart.comMagnolia: http://www.magnolia-cms.comMagnolia KonaKart Module: http://www.headwire.com
Support: Best through Magnolia User Mailing list or KonaKart forums
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