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Introduction
Crafter rivet is open source Web application development middleware for building content-rich applications. It integrates with Web content management systems, like Alfresco, and is designed to integrate with other services and data sources that are typically needed for enterprise-grade Web sites and applications.
Key Features
- Provides loose integration with Alfresco WCM
- Provides for integration with other systems
- RDBMS, RSS/ATOM feeds, Solr/Lucene/Endeca/Fast, Mark Logic, e-Commerce back ends...
- Easily extensible to integrate with more systems
- Integration with advertising servers/networks
- (e.g., Ad channels may be managed in Alfresco)
- Supports multiple presentation frameworks
- Seam/Facelets
- Grails
- Alfresco Surf
- Spring MVC
- JavaScript, GWT, YUI, ... (using REST (JSON/XML))
- High performance, reliability, scalability
- Standards compliant (XHTML / CSS)
- Horizontally Scalable
- Excellent support for SEO
- Decouples Web Content Management (authoring) from Web Content Delivery
Design Overview
Architecture
Core
Crafter is Java-based, and is built using proven open source technologies:
| Name | URL | Used For |
|---|---|---|
| Spring Framework | http://www.springframework.org | Spring is used for all services and service wiring |
| JBoss Seam | http://www.seamframework.org | Seam is used to manage contexts (scopes), dependency bijection, [TODO:] |
| Tuckey URL Rewrite Filter | http://tuckey.org/urlrewrite | mod_rewrite-like URL rewrites |
| RESTEasy | http://www.jboss.org/resteasy | JAX-RS RESTful services |
| EhCache | http://ehcache.sourceforge.net | Cache engine |
Crafter has been extended with additional services and presentation components using:
| Name | URL | Used For |
|---|---|---|
| Hibernate | http://www.hibernate.org | Persistence |
| Quercus PHP | http://www.caucho.com/resin-3.0/quercus | PHP presentation layer (write PHP and run in on JVM in Crafter!) |
| ROME | http://rome.dev.java.net | RSS/ATOM feed consumption/generation |
| RichFaces | http://www.jboss.org/jbossrichfaces | JSF component library |
Extensions
