• Technical Overview
  • Overview
    • What is Jahia?
    • The closer View
    • Technical Requirements
    • Everything is Content, whatever the type or source
      • Integrator and Developer Customization
    • Integrated technologies
    • Architecture Overview
    • Modules
    • Jahia's Different Actors
  • Web Layers
    • Content Flows
    • Templates and Views
    • The Jahia Template Studio
      • Page templates
      • Content Templates
    • REST API
      • Actions
      • Example : native iPhone/iPad application
    • Mobile Rendering
    • Macros
    • Filters
  • Back-end Layer
    • Workflow
    • JBoss Drools and event listeners
    • File Repository
    • Searching and Indexing
      • Full text queries using search tag librairies
      • Query Languages
    • Authentication and Authorization
      • Single Sign-on
      • Roles and Permissions
    • Import / Export
    • Distant Publications
    • Portlets
      • Portlets vs. Modules
  • Performance
    • Cache
      • Cache Types
      • The browser cache layer
      • The front-end HTML cache layer
      • Object cache layer
      • Database Caches
    • Clustering
      • Visitors Nodes
      • Authoring Notes
      • Processing nodes
    • More resources on Perfomance
  • Additional Resources
• Quick Start
  • Download and Install
  • Create a Site
  • Editing your Site
    • Edit Mode GUI
  • Manipulate Content
    • Edit Existing Content
    • Create New Content
    • Move Content in a Page
  • Preview and Publish your Work
  • Move Content Between Pages
  • Delete Content
  • Use a Content item in many places at the same time
  • Control the Rights
  • Managing Sites
  • More Detailed Publication
  • Going Further With Interactive Features
    • Insert a Google Map
    • Add a Poll
• Editors Guide
  • Concepts
    • Essential Concepts
    • Getting Started As An Editor
  • Editing Interfaces
    • Overview of the Editing Interface
      • The Workspace
      • The Tool Bar
      • The Selector
    • Managers
      • The Content Explorer
      • The Tag Manager
      • The File Manager
      • Category Manager
      • The Portlet Explorer
      • The Site Explorer
      • Remote Publishing Manager
    • The Editing forms or "engines"
      • Organization of Editing Engines
      • The different types of input fields
      • Mandatory and optional fields
      • Content Tab
      • Layout Tab
      • Meta Tab
      • Tags Tab
      • Category Tab
      • Option Tab
      • Rights Tab
      • History Tab
      • Users Tab
      • Workflow Tab
      • SEO Tab
  • Working With Jahia
    • Site and Directory Management
      • Creating a Page
      • Renaming a Page
      • Moving a Page
      • Reordering Pages
      • Deleting a Page
      • Menus and Directory
      • Inserting Links
      • Inserting Headings
      • Hiding Pages in the Menus
    • Editing Content Within Pages
      • Editorial Content
      • Non-Editorial Content
    • Content Manage Externally
      • Creating New Content
      • Manipulating Content Out of Context
      • Organization of Content Out of Context
    • Rights management on a daily basis
• Administration Guide
  • Section One: Server Settings
    • The “Web Project Management” Module
      • Creating a Web Project
      • Deleting a Web Project
      • Editing Web Project Properties
      • Other Site-Related Settings
    • The “Manage Users” Module
      • Creating a User
      • Editing User Properties
      • Removing a User
      • Locking a User
      • Batch-Importing Users
    • The “E-mail Settings” Module
    • The “Manage Portlets” Module
    • The “Edit Super Administrator Properties” Module
    • The “Server and Cache Status” Module
    • The “Password Policy” Module
    • The “Manage Roles” Module
      • Creating a New Role
      • Deleting or Copying a Role
      • Exporting and Importing Roles
    • The “Report a Problem” Module
    • The “Jahiapedia” Module
    • The “About Jahia” Module
  • Section Two: Site Settings
    • The “Manage Groups” Module
      • Creating a Group
      • Adding and Removing Members
      • Removing a Group
      • Duplicating a Group
    • The “Manage Languages” Module
      • Navigating the Site in Mix Languages Mode
      • Adding Languages
      • Deleting a Language
    • The “HTML Settings” Module
    • The “Display Vanity URL” Module
    • The “Manage Templates” Module
    • The “Link Checker” Module
      • Auditing External Links with the Link Checker
• Contributors Guide
  • Basic Concepts
    • Simplified Work Mode
    • Accessing the Contribute Mode
    • Storing Content
    • Available Functions
    • Contribute Mode Overview
  • Description of Contribution Functions
    • Adding New Content
    • Editing Existing Content
    • Deleting Existing Content
    • Reordering Existing Content on a List
    • Copy, Cut and Paste
  • Field Types
    • Simple Text Field
    • Rich Text Field
    • Image Field
    • Date Field
  • Edition Out of Context
  • Content Management Interfaces: The "Managers"
  • Publish Recent Changes
• Multi Channel Rendering
  • Mobile Rendering
    • Example
    • Device orientation
    • Mobile device capabilities
  • Native Mobile Applications
  • Additional Resources
• Jahiapedia V6 Archive
• Portlet Guide
  • Quick tutorial: deploying the portlet test suite
  • Deployment
    • What is a portlet preparation? Why do I need it?
    • Deploying through the administration user interface
    • Deploying directly through the file system
  • Using in a Jahia page
    • Portlet instances
    • Portlet roles and Jahia permissions
  • Hello world portlet
    • Requirements
    • Project structure
    • Maven project descriptor
    • Portlet Java code
    • Portlet descriptor
    • Web application descriptor
    • The Tomcat deployment descriptor
    • Building and deploying
    • Redeployment
    • Troubleshooting deployment
    • Learning more
  • Support for Bridges
  • How to share portlet objects?
    • Public Render Parameters
    • Portlet Events
    • Jahia Shared Map
      • How to share a simple object?
      • How to read a simple object?
      • How to share a bean?
  • Performance
  • Using portlets on other application servers
  • Additional resources
• Templating and Integration Guide
  • Part 1: Concepts
    • The "Everything is Content" Paradigm
      • Content items are objects with properties that correspond to a type
      • Nodes are stored in workspaces, organized in trees
    • The rendering flow
      • To render a node, you need a view
      • To render a page, you need a template
    • Modules are packages used to deploy “code” into Jahia
    • The Jahia actors
      • Content flow
  • Part 2: Modules
    • What is a module?
    • Module creation
    • Anatomy of a module
    • Adding classes and Jars in modules
    • Spring files
    • Adding views
      • NodeType folders
      • Output formats
      • Default view
      • Other views
      • Modules versus Components
  • Part 3: Templates and Studio
    • Introduction to templates
    • Studio
      • Studio overview
    • Creating a template-set
      • Using the Maven archetype
      • Using Eclipse
      • Using Jahia Studio
      • Update the Maven project when templates are modified in the Studio
    • Building templates
      • There are 3 different kind of templates
      • Main Resource and template resolution
      • Areas in detail
      • Content templates in details
      • Bound Components
    • CSS style sheets and design
      • Preparing your stylesheet
      • Including stylesheets in templates
      • Managing different stylesheets depending on the context
      • Print friendly CSS
      • CSS frameworks and handmade XHTML
    • Themes
      • How it works
    • Skins
      • Creating skins
      • Skin rendering
  • Part 4: Content Definitions and Views
    • Definitons
      • NodeType
      • Namespaces
      • Supertypes
      • Options
      • Node Type properties
      • Input masks
      • Default values
      • Initializers
      • Validators
      • Abstract types
      • In practice: create the node type definition for dogs
    • Managing URLs in scripts
    • Managing lists
      • Summary for a simple list
      • Using list views
    • Managing and customizing navigation menus
      • Menu Rendering
      • Customization
  • Part 5: Advanced Techniques
    • Search and queries
      • Full text queries using search tag libraries
      • Queries
      • In practice: creating a custom search component
    • Forms
      • Principles
      • Form data parameters
      • In practice: Transform a custom HTML form into a Jahia valid form step by step
    • Macros
      • Macro implementation languages
      • Typical usage
    • Caches
  • Part 6: Setting up an integration environment
    • Software Requirements
    • Maven configuration for Eclipse IDE
    • Maven External Configuration
    • Creating a template set
  • Part 7: Step by step integration
    • Cutting of the mockup
    • Integration of the Base
    • CSS / Javascript integration
    • Creating the content zones
  • Further reading and resources
• Modules List
  • Editorial Composites
  • Functional Composites

This document contains a technical introduction to Jahia.

It is designed to help readers with technical skills such as integrators, developers, testers or others get a starting point into Jahia. It is not meant to be a user’s guide or an administration’s guide. Please refer to the corresponding documents if that is what you are looking for.

The document has five sections:

• An overview of Jahia, what it is, the different types of actors involved, technical requirements, integrated technologies and frameworks
• The web layer which is a description of the layer exposed to the browser, and how it relates to the various components in Jahia, how they may be composed to build powerful web applications
• The back-end layer, which contains a description of all the different services and technologies available in Jahia. This back-end is used by the web layer but may also be in some cases used directly by integrators, such as in the case of integrating custom workflows.
• A section about performance, and how Jahia addresses the very demanding high load scenarios.
• Finally, a section that describes the additional resources available to developers and integrators, from online resources to commercial support contracts.