Hi,
Interesting question :)
I guess a fundamental indicator is the complexity of the CMS vs your own
code. I mean, will the public facing website include only a small part of
customization (a few new forms here and there, a few pages...) and most of
the hits will be actually handled by the CMS ? Or is it the inverse ? Are
your Stripes pages the main focus, and expose more features than the CMS ?
Rewriting a full-blown CMS ain't easy, but I guess rewriting your app isn't
either :P
Apart from your 3 options, have you considered client-side, "mashup"-style
integration ?
I mean, I guess most of those CMSs provide ways to integrate 3rd party
stuff within their UI, via plugins or the like.
It depends on the architecture (authentication, cross-domain etc) but maybe
you can integrate your heterogeneous apps via "widgets" that you put in
your CMS and that access your Stripes services.
I don't know Wordpress, but I'm pretty sure it has such capability. It
certainly provides REST APIs that you can call from the browser in order to
get the data you need from the CMS. Now you only need your Stripes app to
do the same : expose REST-like services so that you can mix "cross-apps"
widgets in the same page(s). Like display a GUI that is backed by a Stripes
app inside a Wordpress page.
Quick googling, and, as expected, it's plugin-based at its core :
http://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_a_Plugin
Ok, it's php, but it can definitely invoke your Stripes stuff, either
directly from your Wordpress instance in php (server-to-server), or via
Cross-Domain JS (browser-to-server). The second option involves only very
little php : your plugin only has to include the JS you need from the
Stripes app, and let it do the magic...
You can also mix the two websites in some circumstances. Say you now have a
"Shop" link in the CMS nav bar : this link can point to a Stripes app,
provided you manage authentication.
Tell us how it goes !
Cheers
Rémi
2015-02-28 11:08 GMT+01:00 Paul Carter-Brown <
paul.carter-br...@smilecoms.com>:
> Hi,
>
> We have been using Stripes for the last 5 years and love the framework.
> The sites we have used it on are all transactional (think CRM) with
> back-end integration to other systems for customer profile management,
> account management etc.
> We also have a fairly static public facing web site using wordpress CMS
> that was created by our marketing agency. We now have a need to add a lot
> more transactional functionality to the public facing site for customers to
> buy goods and services, manage their accounts etc and the marketing team
> want to keep their ability to manage and change content on the site as they
> see fit without code/JSP changes. We now have to make a call on these
> possible options:
>
> 1) Try and use PHP/Wordpress to do what we are so good at doing in
> Stripes. We are a Java shop and have lots of boiler plate code and
> framework around Stripes so thinking of now doing this all over again in
> PHP is scary
>
> 2) Use a completely new Java web framework with a CMS and then find a way
> of adding our back end integration etc into that web framework. Thinking
> here of things like Drupal, HippoCMS, dotCMS etc
>
> 3) Find a CMS with a tag library or similar that can be used on Stripes
> JSP's to pull in content served from the CMS to supplement whats being
> resented by the JSP. We then get to use Stripes and have all the
> integration done already (e.g. binding into domain models). We also get the
> benefit of giving marketing areas of the site where they are free to change
> images, text etc etc in a CMS with approval processes and ability to
> publish changes without any need for redeploys etc
>
>
> I really really want to find a good CMS for option (3). I'm sure my
> requirement is not unique (power of Stripes for transactional web sites but
> with a CMS for marketing to update parts of the site they control). Anyone
> out there with any suggestions?
>
> Thanks so much
>
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