Treffer: A Component Based Architecture for Web Content Management: Runtime Deployable WebManager Component Bundles

Customizing Web Applications is complex and result in possible complications when upgrading. The Web Con-tent Management system ‘GX WebManager ’ offers Web-Manager Component Bundles (WCBs): a new plug-in sys-tem for adding custom functionality runtime to the Web Ap-plication. WCBs consist of three, open source and open standards based technologies: Open Services Gateway ini-tiative (OSGi), Java Content Repository (JCR) and Spring Model View Controller (MVC). In this demonstration we will show how to build and deploy a WCB based on an archetype and elaborate on the various forms of applica-tions. The goal is to allow developers to easily create cus-tom web applications plug-ins and share their application with the community on the one hand, and provide a library of custom functionalities for online business owners. 1