A paper in the InfoGlue Series
InfoGlue - Developer Manual
Author: Mattias Bogeblad
Version 2.4.6

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Introduction............................................................................................... 13

Feedback..................................................................................................... 13

What is InfoGlue.......................................................................................... 14

What parts are there in InfoGlue.................................................................... 14

How does it work........................................................................................ 15

InfoGlue pages behind the curtain.................................................................. 16

The request/response cycle.......................................................................... 16

A page in detail........................................................................................... 17

Development process................................................................................. 19

Site/Page analysis...................................................................................... 19

Content types............................................................................................ 19

Template / Component-list......................................................................... 19

Tools........................................................................................................... 20

Built in tools............................................................................................. 20

HTML-editors.............................................................................................. 20

Velocity editor.......................................................................................... 20

Easy Edit.................................................................................................... 20

Building pages in InfoGlue......................................................................... 21

Basics about Page types............................................................................. 21

Basics about connecting content and other resources to pages........................... 23

Components................................................................................................ 24

Composite pattern...................................................................................... 24

Creating a component................................................................................. 24

Slots......................................................................................................... 24

Properties & bindings................................................................................... 24

How it looks............................................................................................... 25

API........................................................................................................... 28

Integration................................................................................................. 29

Simple integration via Iframes................................................................... 29

Simple integration via embedding................................................................ 29

Advanced integration via custom classes in velocity................................ 30

Tasks........................................................................................................... 31

Introduction............................................................................................... 31

Flow of a task............................................................................................ 31

Portlet development.................................................................................. 32

Step 1 – Create a Hello World Portlet.............................................................. 32

Step 2 – Package the portlet as a WAR-file....................................................... 34

Step 3 – Deploy the portlet in InfoGlue............................................................ 35

Step 4 – Use the portlet on a page though a component.................................... 36

Workflows in InfoGlue.............................................................................. 37

Introducing the My Desktop Tool............................................................... 37

OSWorkflow - The Workflow Engine........................................................... 38

Managing workflow definitions in InfoGlue................................................ 38

Creating workflows................................................................................... 39

Views........................................................................................................ 39

The Property Set........................................................................................ 39

Actions...................................................................................................... 40

Function providers, populators and other helper classes..................................... 42

Example workflow definition..................................................................... 43

Example View.............................................................................................. 47

Common patterns........................................................................................ 49

Building a basic page.................................................................................. 50

How to manage style (CSS)