Associated Newspapers is unique to Day's customer base in that they have chosen to build their own CMS on top of CRX. Ed Kreiman will talk about the path Associated Newspapers has taken in adopting CRX as an enterprise content repository. Walking through the success of their prototype explore.dailymail.co.uk Ed will also demonstrate the end to end CMS and web delivery platform in action. Ed Kreiman, Chief Solutions Architect, Associated Newspapers

1. CRX
/
Explore
/
Metro
Edward
Kreiman
–
Chief
Architect
Mail
Online

2. What
are
we
going
to
cover
today?
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Why JCR?
Proving the technology – minimising the risk
The birth of Explore
Defining Associated Newspaper’s Architecture strategy on CRX
Metro - Architecture in Action
What have we learnt?

3. Why
JCR?
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Architecture challenges identified after 2nd generation launch of Mail Online
Address the domain issues of a legacy relational schema
Leverage off the heavy lifting of our CMS and create a light weight front end
Adapt to the requirements of our four major titles
Technology to fit the requirement
Consider JCR?
Content stored as content
Structure without dependency

4. Proving
the
technology
–
minimising
the
risk
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Proof of Concept
Where did JCR come from?
Review the outcomes
Data structure
Performance of the data store and webdav
From Proof of Concept to Prototype
…the power of structured content

5. The
birth
of
Explore
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Open Calais and automated topic pages

6. The
birth
of
Explore
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Soft references and the power of Lucene

7. Defining Associated Newspaper’s Architecture strategy on CRX
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Two distinct use cases
A clear API Strategy with Apache Sling
Webdav and single requests for content - the backbone of our architecture

8. Defining Associated Newspaper’s Architecture strategy on CRX
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JVM in action…

9. Metro
–
Architecture
in
AcHon
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Show and tell…

10. Metro
–
Architecture
in
AcHon
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Article Metadata…

11. Metro
–
Architecture
in
AcHon
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Module Metadata…

12. Metro
–
Architecture
in
AcHon
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Link List Metadata…

13. What
have
we
learnt?
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It’s all about the people
JCR – a different way of thinking
The biggest hurdle is telling the board there will be no more Oracle
Solaris and ZFS have been a great compliment to CRX