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 content management system ´GX WebManager´ offers WebManager component bundles (WCBs): a new plug-in system for adding custom functionality runtime to the Web application. WCBs consist of three, open source and open standards based technologies: open services gateway initiative (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 applications. The goal is to allow developers to easily create custom 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.