• 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 type
    • Module creation
    • Anatomy of a module
    • Adding classes and Jars in modules
    • Spring files
  • 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
    • Views
      • NodeType folders
      • Output formats
      • Default view
      • Other views
      • Modules versus Components
      • Module packaging and deployement
    • 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

Definitons

Definitions are at the heart of Jahia as its data model relies on definitions to specify the types of content objects that may be stored in the JCR (Java Content Repository) back-end storage.

Definitions declare the type of objects used in Jahia as well as their properties, including some useful information Jahia will use to present, control, validate or index the instances of objects created using those definitions.

You can find detailed information about JCR definitions on the Jackrabbit website http://jackrabbit.apache.org/node-type-notation.html

Let’s now review step by step how definitions are built.