We have done multiple big Hippo projects. A regular Hippo project consists of multiple components like the website, the content management system and a repository for the documents. In most of the projects we also introduce the integration component. This component is used to pull other data sources into Hippo, but we also use it […]
Hippo CMS Favorite Folders Plugin
After doing a number of big projects with Hippo CMS, I came up with the idea of creating a plugin. I’m always looking for ways to optimize the user experience as I think user experience is one of the most important parts of a product. Hippo allows you to store your content in a folder […]
Enterprise search with Solr and Elasticsearch @ Hippo Meetup
At a recent Hippo meetup I gave a presentation about enterprise search. Being able to index and search your content, both in the Hippo CMS and in other sources, is of interest to many Hippo users. The presentation does not go into any Hippo specifics, but provides a brief introduction to search, Apache Lucene and […]
University of Amsterdam website goes live
Congratulations to our client the University of Amsterdam who today launched their new website. With a new look & feel and a complete update of all the existing content it’s a showcase of how educational institutions can really provide relevant information to varied target audiences. The site built by us, Orange11, with the use of Hippo CMS now makes it […]
Authenticate against a hippo repository using spring security
Within a number of my projects we use Hippo to create a website. Hippo contains a JackRabbit repository that has capabilities for authenticating and authorizing users. Hippo builds on this functionality for its own security model. In most of these projects we create an integration component to store content in the repository from other systems […]
Running Hippo CMS from Intellij
For a number of years we are doing hippo development using our beloved tool “Intellij”. We can import the project using the pom. Deploying from within Intellij was done using the maven provided jetty integration to run the cms. Then we would run the site in another tomcat or as well from maven with jetty. […]
Embedding RSS in Hippo using the pipelines feature
For one of the biggest Hippo projects I have been working on, we have created a custom rss solution. When we started the project, Hippo did not have an rss solution and we had some requirements for caching and reusability that we could not implement with standard hippo. A few years have passed and hippo […]
Monitoring Hippo Connection pool using JMX and Groovy
For a project we are using Hippo to manage our content. We have a few components that interact with the repository using the connection pool as provided by hippo. I have modified the connection pool to increase the amount of logs and I have added statistics to the pool which can be exposed using JMX. […]
Migrating content with Spring Integration – A real life example
In one of the projects we need to migrate content from multiple websites into Hippo CMS. One of the interesting parts of this migration is that one of the websites will constantly provide us with updates of the content. Therefore it makes the migration a continuous process. In this post I will explain how we […]