Discover the magic of ContentBox ColdFusion/Java CMS. A year in the making, all the new features from package management, new theming, theme modules, RESTFul outputs and much more.

1. Content Modularization Is Here!
Luis Majano
www.ortussolutions.com

2. WHO AM I?
• Luis Majano
• Computer Engineer
• Imported from El Salvador
• CEO of Ortus Solutions
• Adobe Community Professional
• Sandals & Beaches -> ESRI -> Ortus

3. Journey of Monolithic Apps
Content Evolution
ContentBox Architecture
Content Modularity
ContentBox Major Features
Walkthrough Demo

5. Monolithic Apps

6. Invasion / Takeover

7. Monolithic Apps
Traditional
CMS/Blog/App
Custom Architecture
Segregated
Deployment
custom
security?
custom
views?
External
Apps
Proxy
MVC?
Performance?
Clustering?
Scalability?

9. Content Evolution
• Ortus = Frameworks
• Best practices & Standards
• MVC, OO, DI,AOP
• Performance
• Scale
• Event Driven
• Custom Security/Search
• Extend Modularly
• Mobile/API Ready

10. Meanwhile….
Modular Desert Circa 2011

12. Foundation is Important
Scalability Flexibility Extensibility Sanitability

13. CODING RECIPE
MVC
Modules
HMVC
OO
Dynamic
Language

14. Conventions Based OO MVC Development Platform
MVC ModulesORM DI/AOP
Caching
TDD/
BDD
Powering apps since 2004

15. • Modular CMS
• Powered by ColdBox MVC
• Content OO Model via Hibernate ORM
• Extensible via CFML/Java
• 2 Licenses
• Open Source - Apache2
• Commercial with Support

16. PROFESSIONAL OPEN SOURCE
• Training
• Content Migrations
• Implementation Strategies
• Support & Mentoring
• Architecture & Design Sessions
• Custom Module/Theme Development

17. • 1st Release 2012
• > 17 releases
• > 1300 registered Box Developers
• Open Slack Channel: CFML #box-products
• Still getting traction
ACTIVE PROJECT + COMMUNITY

18. What Sets Us Apart

19. ContentBox Flavors
For any CFML
Engine
(Adobe or Lucee)
Source
Deploy to any Java
Server
WAR
Self-Contained
Server
Embedded
Database
USB Sticks
Express

20. Modularity
ANY
ColdBox MVC
Application
ContentBox
Admin
ContentBox
UI
ContentBox
Core
Forum eCommerce
Custom App
Custom
Security
Plugins Model
Events
ColdBox Modules
Flex/Air
Remote

21. Modular Architecture
ContentBox
Admin
ContentBox
UI
ContentBox
Core
Forum eCommerce
Custom
Module
Flex/Air
Remote
RESTful QA Module
Google
Analytics

22. Modular URL Mappings
ContentBox
/
ContentBox
/site
/blog
Store
/store
/shop

23. MODULAR DEPLOYMENT

24. Traditional Deployment
Monolithic APP,
ADMIN,TOOLS,API
DMZ
Database
Probes
Discovery
Exposed

25. Modular Segregated Deployment
ContentBox UI
DMZ
Database
ContentBox
Admin
Reporting Security SAP
REST

26. • Not only pages
• Hierarchical storage
• Store What?
• HTML, JS, RSS Feeds, json, data, etc.
• API Driven
• Power mobile apps
• intothebox.org
CONTENT STORE

27. CONTENT STORE

28. Scalable + Elastic
• Cloud Deployment
• http://docs.jelastic.com/contentbox-clustering
• Caching Engine Aware:
• CouchBase NoSQL
• MongoDB
• EHCacheTerracota
• Amazon ElastiCache
• Reddis Cache
• High Redundancy
CB
CB
CBCB
CB

29. Performance
Singleton
Objects
ORM Data
Caching
OO
Content
Markup
Mediawiki
Markdown
Custom
Content
Translation
Final HTML
Output
Similar to
Varnish
Content
Output
Created on
Demand
RSS Feeds

30. CONTENTBOX FEATURES

31. • WYSIWYG Multi-Editors
• Blogging Capabilities
• ContentValue Store
• Publishing & Expiration Schedulers
• Media Managers
• Related Content
• Markup Support
• Content custom fields
• Content categorization
• CFML Code Widgets
• ContentVersion Control
• Localized
FOR EDITORS

32. • SkinningThemes
• Multiple layouts per content
• PDF/Word/Print Content Exports
• Mobile Layouts
• Raw Content
• MVC approach to views
• Automated Menu Builders
• Custom Menu Builders
• CustomViews
• HTML Events
• Responsive Live Previews
• Reusable Content Widgets
FOR DESIGNERS

33. • Auto Update & Custom Patching
• Customizable Permission Based Security
• Built-in Firewall
• Cache Management
• Rate Limiting
• Site/Content Export/Import
• LoginTrackers & Auth Logs
• Admin Modular Deployment
• Comment Moderation
• Site Maintenance Modes
• Module Management
• SSL Enforcements
FOR ADMINS

34. • Powered by ColdBox MVC
• OO Relational Model
• OWASP AntiSamy XSS libraries
• Dependency Injection & AOP
• > 100 events to listen to
• Custom ContentTypes
• Pluggable Security/Search
• Extensive caching granularity
• Modules, Plugins,Widgets,Themes
• Extend the UI+Administrator
• Geek Panel
• ContentBox as an API
FOR DEVELOPERS

35. Resources
• Download: ortusolutions.com/products/contentbox
• Source: github.com/ortus-solutions/ContentBox
• IssueTracker: ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/CONTENTBOX
• Google Groups: groups.google.com/d/forum/contentbox
• Slack Channel: CFML #box-products
• Twitter
• @gocontentbox
• @ortussolutions

36. Gracias!
Q & A