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Lenya Tutorial

Lenya Tutorial. ApacheCon 2005 Stuttgart, Germany Monday, July 18th, 2005. Agenda. We‘ve got 180 minutes or three hours Coffe break 11:15-11:30 I will split the tutorial into three parts Part I: Introduction Part II: Practical Demonstration Part III: Backgrounds and insights

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Lenya Tutorial

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  1. Lenya Tutorial ApacheCon 2005 Stuttgart, Germany Monday, July 18th, 2005

  2. Agenda • We‘ve got 180 minutes or three hours • Coffe break 11:15-11:30 • I will split the tutorial into three parts • Part I: Introduction • Part II: Practical Demonstration • Part III: Backgrounds and insights • We will have some time for discussion after each part

  3. Part I Introduction

  4. Bio • IT consultant with more than 15 years in the industry, worked (among others) with • General Electric (GE) • CSC PLOENZKE • T-Systems • T-Mobile • Ford Motor Company • Interim CEO for Kabul based PAIWSTOON Networking Services Ltd. (part time) • Lenya committer since October 2004 • E-Mail: tschlabach@apache.org(Please post your support questions to the mailing lists!)

  5. Why I believe in Lenya • Because it is Cocoon based • Cocoon is • feature-rich • innovative • developed and maintained by a very healthy community • well accepted in the corporate world • Vodafone live! • T-Mobile „Rechnung Online“ • and many more …

  6. Why I believe in Lenya (cont.) • Because it tries to avoid lock-in of content

  7. Lenya‘s History • Started by Michael Wechner at the University of Zurich • Michael co-founded a company called Wayona headquartered in Switzerland to further develop Lenya • Used for the interactive edition of Neue Züricher Zeitung (www.nzz.ch) • Donated to Apache Software Foundation Spring 2003 • Successfully incubated and became a top level project in September 2004

  8. Lenya Versions • < 1.2: historical, pre-Apache • 1.2 Track • Current version: 1.2.4 • 1.4 Track • Still under development – no release yet • Will it be easy to migrate from 1.2 to 1.4? • Unfortunately; not really

  9. 1.2.x in production for a lot of sites usecases are sitemap based 1.4. not (yet) as mature as 1.2 redesigned usecase framework based on Cocoon Flow and Java Introduces the lenya:-Protocol Major differences

  10. What does it take to use Lenya? • Technical requirements: • JDK 1.4.x • A servlet container of your choice • The right versions of XML parsers and XSLT transformers Xerces and Xalan • If applicable, double-check with your hosting provider!

  11. What does it take to use Lenya? • Skill- and Mindset • Understanding of how OSS works • Make sure your managers / customers understand this as well! • Believe in J2EE, XML, XHTML, and any X…ML stuff • Good knowledge of Cocoon

  12. Features • Multi-Lingual UI • Multi-Lingual Websites • 100% UFT-8 based (Unicode) • Access Control • Revision control (homegrown for now) • Static HTML export

  13. Room for improvement • Well defined editor API • Improved access control • Java Content Repository (JSR 168) … still, but keep watching

  14. Is Lenya fool-proof? No!

  15. Part II Practical Demonstration

  16. Let‘s see it in action Live Demo

  17. Deployment (technical)

  18. Deployment (organisational) • Roles • System administrator • understands Java Servlet containers • should have some Cocoon knowledge • installs the software • Web designer • understands XSLT and CSS • creates the skeleton for the website • Content editor • does not need any particular skills

  19. Part III: Backgrounds and insights

  20. The „Default“ publication • Understanding the sitemap

  21. Document / Ressource Types • Render any XML format to XHTML

  22. Adding Cocoon features • CForms • Cocoon Flowscript • …

  23. The Blog publication • Understanding the differences to the „Default“ publication

  24. Closing remarks

  25. Where Lenya needs improvement • Documentation • Developer‘s documentation • End-User documentation • Well done „User‘s Guide“ • Completeness of the GUI • Editors • Repository Integration

  26. How can I help out? • Download and start using Lenya • Get your arms around it • Contribute to the Wiki • Contribute patches and enhancements • Start with tactical contributions • Apache is a meritocracy: • You might be rewarded with an email address @apache.org sooner or later

  27. More sessions on Lenya • Thursday, 17:30:Powering High-volume web sites with Lenya/Cocoon and mod_cache

  28. Links • http://lenya.apache.org/ • http://wiki.apache.org/lenya/ • http://www.veen.com/jeff/archives/000622.html

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