Implement Hippo

Introduction

This sections covers website development with Hippo CMS. Hippo includes a state-of-the-art delivery tier (commonly referred to as HST or Hippo Site Toolkit) optimized to build content-driven personalized websites that are scalable and performant. The delivery tier provides flexibility by offering easy setup through tools, Spring bean wiring, and a library of out-of-the-box features, as well as easy in production changes manageable via the Channel Manager.

Where to start?

For a hands-on introduction to website development with Hippo, following the trails is highly recommended:

• Getting Started Trail
• Developer Trail

To set up your development environment see:

• Development Environment

The best way to start developing a website with Hippo is to use the setup application and use or extend standard components:

• Setup Application
• Standard Components

To learn the ins and outs of Hippo's delivery tier, start with:

• Configuration Model
• URLs
• Request Handling
• Component Development
• Content Beans
• Templating

Once your website is in production you will need to know how to handle changes introduced by subsequent releases:

• Content and Configuration Updates

If you rather develop your website using a different technology or framework, or want to retrofit an existing website with Hippo CMS, take a look at Hippo's support for RESTful services:

• RESTful JAX-RS Support