SkyVault web application framework

SkyVault Share and all new SkyVault web applications are built on Spring Surf. This web application framework provides the typical features of this kind of framework and supports web content management needs.

At the heart of Spring Surf is a site assembly framework that bundles a full site construction object model and toolkit for building websites and applications.

Its features include:

A Site Dispatcher to create pages easily, link them to the overall navigation of a website, and build pages in a way that promotes reusability.
Templates for defining a page layout once and then reusing it across a large set of pages. You can develop pages using FreeMarker, JSP, HTML, or Java.
A UI Library containing reusable UI components comprising back-end application logic and front-end presentation code that can be bound into regions (or slots) within a page or template.
Pages that you can render in multiple formats, such as print, PDF, or mobile device.
AJAX support for integration with YUI Library.
Forms in a rich forms engine for rendering and collecting data.

Spring Surf embeds Spring web scripts, allowing developers to use the same techniques that were used when building SkyVault content application server RESTful APIs. Often, a Spring Surf website requires access to and management of content held within the application content server, such as to support user-generated content, dynamic site artifacts, personalized presentation, and tagging. To support this, Spring Surf provides the following integration services:

Remote: encapsulates any number of data sources with out-of-the-box support for the SkyVault content application server
Credentials: manages user authentication with out-of-the-box support for the SkyVault content application server

Spring Surf works with SkyVault web content management and provides virtualized content retrieval, preview, and test support for user sandboxes and web projects. Applications built with Spring Surf can be deployed from SkyVault web project spaces to production servers. To facilitate this, Spring Surf uses a lightweight XML-driven model to represent all site artifacts, such as pages, templates, themes, and chrome. This means that SkyVault services, such as change sets, preview, and deployment, can manage Spring Surf sites. In addition, an embedded API supports programmatic control of the same artifacts (see the following figure).

As Spring Surf sites are XML and file-based, they are easily managed in SkyVault WCM, as shown in the following figure:

It offers features such as:

Safe editing of all Spring Surf artifacts, including the ability to snapshot a site and roll it backward in time
Review and Approve workflow of Spring Surf site changes
Preview of site changes
Deployment of site changes to test or production servers

With the CMIS client API, Spring Surf provides an open, community-backed stack for implementing web-based, content-enabled applications.

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