JahiaOne 2015 - Baking Static Content with Digital Factory by Serge Huber

Baking content with Jahia Digital Factory

Serge Huber, CTO, [email protected]

This presentation is NOT…

About my mom’s brownies

… but I hope it will make you hungry !

Baking vs Frying Difference in “when”

templates are applied to content

Baking : applied when content is published

Frying : applied when user requests a page

Baking vs Frying

Baking Frying

Page is dynamic ✅

Very fast to serve ✅

Low CPU usage ✅

Personalizable ✅

Baking vs Frying Jahia Digital Factory is a “frying” system DF has a built-in HTML cache system to

improve performance and lower CPU usage

In most scenarios “frying” makes the most sense

Baking use cases Purely static HTML site

needed But it could also use client-

side Javascript to make it dynamic (not SEO friendly though)

Also useful for building static HTML to be included in mobile applications that use Apache Cordova

The Content Sync Module

Introducing

History Initially created to generate static content to

build Mobile Applications using Apache Cordova framework

Generate HTML from DF site to sync website look and feel with native mobile apps

What is it ? A module to synchronize (or “bake”) content between

the JCR and different file systems Can be used to create static copies of Digital Factory

websites Uses Apache Commons VFS as a file system

abstraction Makes it possible to copy to : local file system, FTP,

SFTP, WebDAV + implement others (JCR)

Basic static HTMLDemo

How it works Uses a built-in web crawler to copy the HTML

and all static resources needed (CSS, Javascript, images, …)

Integrates with publishing system to trigger syncs on publication

Uses background jobs to perform the sync only on processing server (doesn’t impact other servers)

Sync output uses Apache Commons VFS to send content to others uses

Uses new static channels to generate alternate renders for new dynamic sync components

Channel integration Example with top-right search box Normally performs an internal

Jahia search engine call Using a separate channel

“static_html_ver1” we can configure an alternative view

This alternative view is configured to use a Google Site search on our synched static copy

Channel integrationDemo

For the longest time… …it’s been about

What if…

You had one Jahia Studio to rule them all ?

Introducing…

Dynamic Sync components

Dynamic sync components

Demo

The overview

Digital Factory

PHP Apps (Drupal,

phpBB, …)

.NET apps (Sitefinity

Content Syncdynamic

sync components

Dynamic sync components

Components can react to the extension used to generate the static synched copy (PHP, .NET, JSP)

The channel changes automatically for each extension

Makes it possible to generate custom output for each supported extension

A single component can render PHP, .NET or JSP code !

Dynamic sync component

Request info example : dump request info<h2>ASP Request headers</h2><table border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"> <thead> <tr> <th>Header name</th> <th>Header value</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody><% for each x in Request.ServerVariables response.write("<tr><td>") response.write(x) response.write("</td><td>") response.write(Request.ServerVariables(x)) response.write("</td></tr>") next%> </tbody></table>

.NET (ASP)

<h2>PHP Request headers</h2><table border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"> <thead> <tr> <th>Header name</th> <th>Header value</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody><?phpforeach (getallheaders() as $name => $value) { echo "<tr><td>$name</td><td>$value</td></tr>";}?> </tbody></table>

PHP

Dynamic component example

What needs to be done Improve administration UI / add image synching Native integrations with Marketing Factory Add/improve mobile project sync Optimize sync algorithm to avoid regenerating full site

everything all the time Improve sync implementation to support Ant patterns for

inclusion / exclusion Add more dynamic components

Other sync components ideas

“Hole” component that would just reference a native PHP/.NET/JSP scripts that exists on the destination servers

Components that integrate with other software such as SugarCRM (PHP) / Drupal (PHP) / Sitefinity (.NET)

Integration with existing custom software built/used in-house

The sky’s the limit… lots of other possibilities !

Where/when can I get it ? No horizon defined yet Open to collaborative dev Open to ideas / discussions with customers

To prioritize features To define scope / use cases

Q & A

Thank you !Serge Huber, CTO, [email protected]