Embedding GlassFish v3 Prelude into the Nuxeo WebEngine

1. Nuxeo
WebEngine
Bogdan Stefanescu - 05 Nov. 2008

2. Overview
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Who Am I?
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Embedding GlassFish
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Why?
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How?
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Nuxeo WebEngine
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What is?
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How it works?
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Pleasant coding

3. Who Am I?
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Bogdan Stefanescu
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mailto:bs@nuxeo.com
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Lead Architect at Nuxeo
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http://www.nuxeo.org
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Team Leader on Apogee Project
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http://apogee.nuxeo.org
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Team Leader on WebEngine Project
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http://www.nuxeo.org/webengine

4. Embedding GlassFish
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Why Embedding An Application Server?
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Light packaging for enterprise applications.
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Leverage J2EE features in standalone applications.
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Why GlassFish?
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Powerful component model.
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Very easy to embed.
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Fast startup time.
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Easily configurable through custom domain.xml file.

5. How?

6. Nuxeo WebEngine – What is?
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A framework to build RESTful web applications on top of the
Nuxeo ECM Platform.
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http://www.nuxeo.org/webengine
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Features:
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Built on top of JAX-RS model.
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Content Management through Nuxeo Platform
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Groovy Scripting: supports Groovy JAX-RS ressources
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Hot Deploy of Applications
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Powerful Object Model – supports Groovy objects too.
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Flexible Template Engine - based on Freemarker
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Embeds GlassFish v3 as an OSGi bundle.

7. Nuxeo WebEngine
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Modular and Extensible.
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OSGi as the deployment model.
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Extension points to easily extend existing modules or add new
features.
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Web Applications can be extended from other Web Applications.
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Can be used to build any content oriented web application.
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Powerful Object Model.
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WebEngine Objects are JAX-RS resources.
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Any HTTP request is resolved against a resource.
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Resources can be manipulated through HTTP methods: GET,
POST, PUT, DELETE, HEAD etc.
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Intuitive and pleasant when coding.

8. WebEngine – Pleasant Coding

9. Thank you!
contact@nuxeo.com — www.nuxeo.com/en