Blueprint Developer Manual / Version 2406.1
Table Of ContentsCoreMedia Content Cloud has been developed to provide a universal solution for the creation and management of content.
The use of modern development tools and open interfaces enables the system to be flexibly adapted to enterprise requirements. For this purpose, worldwide standards for information processing, such as XML, HTML, HTTP, REST, Ajax, CORBA and the Java Platform are used or supported.
CoreMedia Content Cloud is a distributed system, that consists of several components for different use cases.
CoreMedia Content Server
Content Management Server
Master Live Server
Replication Live Server
CoreMedia Workflow Server
CoreMedia Content Application Engine
CoreMedia Headless Server
CoreMedia Importer
CoreMedia Search Engine
CoreMedia Content Feeder
CoreMedia CAE Feeder
CoreMedia Commerce Hub
eCommerce Connectors
CoreMedia Studio
CoreMedia User Changes web application
CoreMedia Elastic Social
CoreMedia Adaptive Personalization
CoreMedia Advanced Asset Management
CoreMedia Blueprints
In addition, CoreMedia Content Cloud relies on some third-party systems:
An HCL Commerce Server or SAP Commerce Server or Salesforce Commerce Cloud or commercetools for Commerce
A relational database to store the content and user data
A MongoDB NoSQL database to store the user generated content
An LDAP server for user management
Conceptually, a CoreMedia system can be divided into the Content Management Environment where editors create and manage the content and the Content Delivery Environment where the content is delivered to the customers. Some components are used in both environments, mostly to give you a realistic preview of your websites. Figure 2.1, “System Overview” provides an overview of a CoreMedia Content Cloud system with all components installed:
The following sections describe in short the aim of all components, some main technologies used in CoreMedia Content Cloud and give a short overview over the communication between the components.
