A use case related to Crafter CMS

1. Crafter case:
European Bank
Piergiorgio Lucidi
Open Source ECM Specialist
Certified Alfresco Instructor and Engineer
Alfresco Wiki Gardener and Forum Moderator

2. Summary
• Background
• Goals
• Challenges
• High level architecture
• Results

3. Background - The bank
• European Bank
• Accounts
• Credit Cards
• Mortgages
• Savings
• Insurances
• Promoters

4. Background – The problem
• Different CMS without any orchestration
• Many vertical applications for each domain
of interest that must exchange data in the
same way

5. Background – What they have
• New websites requirements
• Responsive
• Domain Model
• components
• images (constraints: desktop, mobile, tablet)
• metadata
• sections
• associations
• search requirements
– relevance
– advanced search
– suggester

6. Goals
• Introduce a new WCM infrastructure
• Public websites
• Internal websites and applications
• Other needs related to publishing contents

7. Goals
• A central WCM system for all the
distributed systems
• Heterogeneous
• Portals
• Java applications
• Apps based on other technologies
• Redundancy management
• different apps can host the same content without copies
• track where each content is deployed

8. Goals
• High level of customization
• Very specific page types and components
• Content Modeling
• Crafter modeling (WCM side)
• Alfresco modeling (Repository side)
• High reuse of page templates
• Integration / delivery with external applications
• Apps retrieve contents
• Contents are delivered by Crafter Engine

9. Challenges
• Avoid the fragmentation of contents
• Tracking of deployed contents
• Allow editors to use a unique UI
• Contents pushed on different targets / apps
• Simplify the architecture
• Hardware
• Software

10. High level architecture
• Back-end
• Alfresco Cluster (2 nodes)
• Crafter Studio
• Crafter Preview (2 Delivery Node)
• Front-end
• Crafter Delivery Node (4 nodes)
• Crafter Engine
• Apache Solr
• MongoDB (social features)

11. High level architecture - BE
Alfresco Alfresco
DB
Lucene
Index
Lucene
Index
Load Balancer
Crafter
Studio
Crafter
Studio
Load Balancer
Crafter
Preview
Crafter
Preview

12. High level architecture - FE
Crafter
Delivery 3
Crafter
Delivery 2
Load Balancer
Crafter
Delivery 1
Crafter
Delivery 4
Push contents
Back End (BE)
Alfresco / Crafter

13. High level architecture - FE
Crafter
Delivery 3
Crafter
Delivery 2
Load Balancer
Crafter
Delivery 1
Crafter
Delivery 4
User generated
contents (UGC)
MongoDB

14. Results
• Integration with Enterprises
• CMIS
• Spring bean injection
• Groovy templates
• Alfresco rules
• scripting
• actions
• TinyMCE customization
• REST calls for creating custom contents

15. Results
• Great load test results
• very complex pages loaded in 1,3 seconds
(!!!)
• Refined content management
• content types
• components
• metadata
• associations
• Refined advanced search

16. Thank you for your
attention!
p.lucidi@sourcesense.com
www.open4dev.com