AlPaCiNO: a b2b commerce portal solution w/ Magnolia and OFBiz

AlPaCiNO: a b2b commerce portal solution

Architectural approach, pitfalls and the lessons learned

solutions direkt GmbH / Sebastian Schulze, 06/09/2016 @51bby

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A successful digital transformation requires changes in all enterprise areas, not only in marketing and IT. Consequently, all lines of business need to be involved in the implementation of a digital strategy - from product development over supply chain & logistics up to human resources. Silo mentality and "departmental thinking" should be things of the past! Nicole Dufft, Independent Vice President Pierre Audoin Consultants

Introduction

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Who I am

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Sebastian Schulzee-commerce dev team lead

16 years of experience in software development mainly with Java technologies

solutions direkt AGHamburg, Germany

just married, father of one, rock musician, golfer (hcp -23,2)

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The Mission

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Towards the end of 2012British American Tobacco (Germany)asked direkt gruppe whether they could build a digital business platform to support their field force in b2b sales and marketing activities. Tracking

Bonus Points

Digitalize StockpilingQuizzes

Customer SegmentsEducate Retailers

Coupons

Surveys

Multitenancy

Customer Self Services

Reports

Special Offers

Legacy Backend Integration


The Mission

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Towards the end of 2012British American Tobacco (Germany)asked direkt gruppe whether they could build a digital business platform to support their field force in b2b sales and marketing activities.

Serve Content

Sell Products


The Solution: AlPaCiNO Software Stack

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Single Sign-on / Proxy Authentification

Fulfillment PartnersLogistics

SuppliersPayment

Central

Authentication

Service (CAS)

Presentation

Backend Systems ERP

Business IntegrationNEXUSe2e

Author

Magnolia

Shop Logic OFBiz

...CRM

PIM

Web

Serv

ice

Public

Web

Serv

ice

SQL,

H

TTP,

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HTTP, SFTP, ...



Chop off the GUI of OFBiz and replace it with a restful interface for Magnolia

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Freemarker Templates (UI)

Business Logic Events

Entity Framework (DAL)

DB





DB


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public class ShoppingCartEvents { public static String addToCart(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) {…} …}

<form name="addform" action="<@ofbizUrl>additem</@ofbizUrl>" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data"> <input type="hidden" name="add_product_id” value="${productId}"/> <input type="hidden" name=“quantity” value="${quantity}"/></form>



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DB


<form name="addform" action="<@ofbizUrl>additem</@ofbizUrl>" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data"> <input type="hidden" name="add_product_id” value="${productId}"/> <input type="hidden" name=“quantity” value="${quantity}"/></form>



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DB




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RESTful Services



DB


POST /cart/{cartName}/{productId}?quantity={quantity}



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RESTful Services



DBpublic class ShoppingCartEvents { public static String addToCart(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) {…} …}


@RequestMapping(value = "{cartName}/{productId}", method = RequestMethod.POST, produces = {"application/json"})@ResponseBodypublic CartResponse addToCart( @PathVariable(value = "productId" ) String productId, @RequestParam(value = "quantity") String quantity, ...) { addToCart(new HttpServletRequestProxy(productId, quantity), …); …}



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{ "add_product_id": "5000815", "quantity": 1}


OFBiz Service Stubs


ContentApp/data/products

MCA Decorators


public McaProductImpl(Product product, DamTemplatingFunctions damFunctions) { …}

public interface McaProduct extends Product { String getText(String nodeName); Asset getImage(String nodeName); Node getProductNode(); …}


Products Content App

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Shop Products Category Page

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Implement an authoring realm in OFBiz to publish content changes on Magnolia activation triggers

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{ "add_product_id": "5000815", "quantity": 1}



OFBiz Service Stubs

ContentApp/data/products

MCA Decorators


public McaProductImpl(Product product, DamTemplatingFunctions damFunctions) { …}

public interface McaProduct extends Product { String getText(String nodeName); Asset getImage(String nodeName); Node getProductNode(); …}



Client‘s Backend

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DBpublic class ShoppingCartEvents { public static String addToCart(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) {…} …}



Order Export Pipeline

Product Import Pipeline

<#list ["", "$"] as idPrefix> <#list data as product> <Product productId="${idPrefix}${product.ean}" productTypeId="FINISHED_GOOD" quantityIncluded="20"> <internalName>${product.description}</internalName> ...



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Author Public

Publish

OFBiz Service Stubs

POST

/activation/{productId}

$<EAN> <EAN>

ActivationController

ProductActivationAction

Copy



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Author Public

Publish

OFBiz Service Stubs

POST

/activation/{productId}

$<EAN> <EAN>

ActivationController

ProductActivationAction

Copy

POST /cart/{cartName}/{productId}?quantity={quantity}&scope={scope}

// String scope = (isAuthorInstance() ? "author" : "public")

String scopedProductId = ServiceUtils.prependScopePrefix( scope, productId);



Glue everything together with single sign-on and proxy authentication

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Glue everything together with single sign-on and proxy authentication

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Page Request

Redirect to login page

Login

Redirect after login w/ user info

Use RESTful Service w/ proxy

ticket

Confirm proxy ticket w/ user info

Verify proxy ticket

Add to cart

Return updated cart s

tate

POST /cart/{cartName}/{productId}?quantity={quantity}&scope={scope}&pt={proxyTicket}

Gather proxy ticket



Continuously deliver Magnolia with Docker containers for blue-green deployment

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Continuously deliver Magnolia with Docker containers for blue-green deployment

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Few differing config params require a lot of config files to maintain3 environments * 4 tenant installations * 2 Mgnl webapps (author, public) = 24 setups+ SSL certs and trust stores for each domain + CAS setups for each environment

Configuring was error prone and deployment took up to hours!

Condensed and centralized config hierarchy2 setups (author, public) + Docker Compose files with specific parametersAll environments virtually run with same domain name => Less SSL setupConfigure once, run everywhere => Dev environment very similar to productionLess env dependent errors. Deployment time down to minutes.

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