Building a Utilities Portal with Magnolia 5 & SAP
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Matteo Pelucco from Tinext explains the systems integration of SAP for AIL, a Swiss utility company, showing the benefits of Magnolia's Open Suite approach. Learn how Magnolia can be the central framework for your integration projects and why some Magnolia integration patterns should be your best development friends.
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Page protection (for each page)
Security layer exposed to freemarker
conditional presentation layer statements
user interface personalization
Agile: easy to test and debug
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Building a Utilities Portal with Magnolia 5 & SAP
- 1. Building a utilities portal with Magnolia 5 and SAP Magnolia Conference 2014 Matteo Pelucco, Senior Software Engineer Basel, 26th June 2014
- 4. 1995 45+ 650+ 2 mio 800+ 2 2 3000+ 24x7 x365 Our first web project Employees Hosted websites web pages clients We are in Switzerland and Italy Datacenters Managed mailboxes Guaranteed assistance Physical servers Realized projects 160+ 1500+ Facts and figures 4
- 5. About Tinext Tinext combines the latest digital marketing expertise together with the deep technical understanding of a seasoned enterprise systems integrator. The end results are solid enterprise web solutions that transform our clients’ businesses. Since 2001, our teams have conceived, delivered, deployed and maintained more than 500 successful projects, with clients including Al Arabiya News Channel, Royal Caribbean International, Whirlpool Europe, City of Lausanne, Generali Group and Swiss national broadcasters RSI. With a comprehensive range of digital services delivered through our three core practices, Tinext can deliver complete projects or flexible services working in combination with other providers. 5
- 6. Clients 6
- 7. Matteo Pelucco, Senior Software Engineer 7 @matteopelucco
- 8. Aziende Industriali di Lugano (AIL) 8 Company Public Utility company Produces electricity & water. Imports gas. Retails electricity, gas & water in Ticino. Project CMS Replacement: Magnolia 100k potential users 23 business processes to build Sensitive data
- 10. 25 Business Processes to model ..and many more.. Each of them interacts with SAP in a different way (few common patterns) Standard form builder was not enough!
- 11. Just an example: what stakeholders think
- 12. Just an example: how things really are
- 13. 13 USE YOUR HP!
- 14. Form builder reloaded Standard Form Builder has been extended, several new features has been introduced: • SAP-aware validators • Multistep navigation bar • Step Validators • Scriptable default values for input (eval) • Final summary step • Dynamic mail processors • Everything responsive!
- 15. A business process site tree
- 16. A business process interface bp#17: change payment method
- 17. Step validators
- 18. New form field types
- 20. Responsive contextual help (STK)
- 22. Legacy SAP integration Do you remember? We are moving an existing (live!) project, already on SAP. Legacy SOAP-based SAP integration layer Refactoring not in project scope! No documentation Only WSDL
- 23. jUnit as reverse engineering tool Tests to reverse engineer SOAP layer Java WS client: built with jax-ws, filled with jUnit test cases. Magnolia 5 IoC allowed our team to mock all the remote functionalities, without blocking front-end developers. SAP URLs in magnolia.properties file No risk of accessing the wrong SAP environment.
- 24. jUnit as reverse engineering tool Each jUnit test decomposed in FormProcessor and/or FormStepValidator Quick debugging: just change few properties and launch the test
- 25. jUnit as reverse engineering tool AbstractTest.java LoginTest.java ChangeUsernameTest.java SendMeterReadingsTest.java … Flow simulation, real SAP calls, asserts, utilities tuning, … Common methods / utilities Prepares a «logged» context, @before method
- 27. Legacy Alfresco DMS Customer communications were stored in Alfresco (v. 2.x!) SAP ask Alfresco to generate PDF, and to serve them to customers Need to hide real Alfresco URLs..
- 28. Alfresco API Used standard Alfresco API to download documents A dedicated Magnolia «DocumentDownloadServlet» transparently proxies the document download request for a logged user, applying a security layer on top of it.
- 29. Alfresco API
- 31. Authentication and authorization Users are in SAP No ACLs: everything is data-driven Rules not applicable on a hierarchical resource tree
- 32. Page renderer Page protection (for each page) Security layer exposed to freemarker conditional presentation layer statements user interface personalization Agile: easy to test and debug [#if …] normal flow [#else] exception [/#if]
- 33. User Login
- 36. Conclusions Magnolia «open suite approach» easily allows to «plug» your integration activity • So many «injection points» • Reliable: integration patterns Form Builder is very powerful and customizable Mock activity is foundamental in projects like this. Magnolia IoC helps the project lifecycle and team work User data security always on top of feature set
- 37. Future Improvements Simplify Form building activity Now it is for superusers Too many Magnolia green bars, even for short forms SAP represents a single point of failure Expose SAP data to a «look-aside» repository, periodically refreshed. This will allow also horizontal scaling.. Heavy usage of Http Session No cache Provide a way to communicate between a form step and another No single-page app Form builder should be exposed also to JS frameworks (Backbone, Angular..) for a better user experience and performance.
- 38. 38 SVN Sync (app) Allows automatic synchronization of a SVN repository to Magnolia webapp (filesystem) Bootstrap tasks Clone Magnolia standard security, create pages, utilities Java Utils HTTP helpers, Calendar, Captcha, Text, Collections, Magnolia, .. Freemarker Utils Calendar, Text, Magnolia, STK shortcuts, … Page Builder API Allow to create pages simulating user interactions Captcha Integration with Tinext Captcha System NECTAR: A NEW TINEXT MODULE
- 39. Nectar: SVN Sync App
- 40. y Nectar: SVN Sync App
- 41. y Nectar: SVN Sync App
- 42. Nectar: SVN Sync App 42
- 43. Thank you for your attention. Tinext SA Viale Serfontana 7 6834 Morbio Inferiore Switzerland +41 91 612 22 66 [email protected] www.tinext.com Tinext Italia Srl Via Borghi 8 21013 Gallarate Italy +39 0331 667 747
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