Example WCBs

Why reinvent the wheel when someone else has done it before? Below is a list of example WCBs that can be downloaded from wcmexchange.com. These WCBs are free to download (free login required) and come complete with source code that you can copy and modify for your own use. Be sure to share your WCBs on wcmexchange.com as well!

Element WCBs

WCB	Description
DART Element	http://www.wcmexchange.com/wmsdartelement/ An element that supports bannering.
FCKeditor Element	http://www.wcmexchange.com/fckeditorelement/ An example of an element implementing the FCKeditor.
Google Optimizer Element	http://www.wcmexchange.com/wmsgoogleoptimizerelement/ Supports A/B testing or multi-variation testing based on Google tooling.
Navigation Element	http://www.wcmexchange.com/navigationelement/ An example of an element that allows the editor to define a navigation menu.
Tagcloud Element	http://www.wcmexchange.com/tagcloudelement/ An example of an element that uses the keywords from the media repository.
Vimeo Element	http://www.wcmexchange.com/vimeointegration/ An element providing Vimeo integration

Presentation WCBs

WCB	Description
Backbase Examples	http://www.wcmexchange.com/examplesbackbase/ A showcase of how to integrate an AJAX framework like Backbase into WebManager.
Browse Aloud	http://www.wcmexchange.com/browsealoud/ This BrowseAloud is an easy to implement presentation that displays one of the BrowseAloud buttons on the page.
Community Edition Presentation	http://www.wcmexchange.com/cestyle/ A full presentation that covers everything in GX WebManager: elements, forms, discussions, media repository, queries.
Google Custom Search	http://www.wcmexchange.com/googlecustomsearch/ A very basic presentation that can be used to create a Google Custom Search Element on your site.
GX WebManager Corporate Design	http://www.wcmexchange.com/gxwebmanagerpresentation/ An extensive design that includes a flash presentation for screenshots (which are images in the objectmanager)
iPhone Presentation	http://www.wcmexchange.com/iphonepresentation/ A simple presentation example.
Rich Experience Dashboard	http://www.wcmexchange.com/dashboard/ An example of creating a rich experience website based on the jQuery framework.
Rich Experience Forms	http://www.wcmexchange.com/richforms/ An example of how to use an AJAX framework like jQuery to work with WebManager forms.

Service WCBs

WCB	Description
Database Entity Cache Update Service	http://www.wcmexchange.com/databaseentitycacheservice/ This service can be configured to periodically update the timestamps for a given Database Entity based on the results of a query.
Directory Cleaner Service	http://www.wcmexchange.com/directorycleanerservice/ An example of a service WCB.
WM Filesync	http://www.wcmexchange.com/wmsfilesync/ An example of a service WCB.

Servlet WCBs

WCB	Description
Captcha Servlet	http://www.wcmexchange.com/kaptchaservlet/ Servlet and form presentation to facilitate the use of Captcha's in forms.
Proxy Servlet	http://www.wcmexchange.com/proxyservlet/ A proxy servlet WCB to get for example RSS feeds from external sites using ajax calls.
Secure Proxy Servlet	http://www.wcmexchange.com/secureproxyservlet/ The Secure Proxy Servlet serves as proxy to allow (AJAX) requests from the client-browser to a list of trusted domains.

Misc WCBs

WCB	Description
Books Example	http://www.wcmexchange.com/booksexample/ This WCB is very useful for developers who like to learn more about programming WCBs. The books example is based on the well known 'petstore' J2EE example. By looking at the available source code you can learn more about how to implement common design and coding patterns such as persistence/data retrieval, model-view-controler seperation and use of common GUI elements such as lists, dropdown menus, selection popups and search functionality.
Form Definition	http://www.wcmexchange.com/formdefinition/ WCB to create the form definition for WebManager forms.
Guideline Audit Tool	http://www.wcmexchange.com/guidelineaudit/ The guideline audit tool is a tool that performs an automatic audit of your WCB against the WCB development guidelines.
HTML Entities	http://www.wcmexchange.com/htmlentities/ Tag library to facilitate the escaping from and to HTML entities.
Import / Export Connector	http://www.wcmexchange.com/wmsconnectorapi/ Generic connector API for facilitating imports in one format and exports in another.
Import / Export Connector: CSV	http://www.wcmexchange.com/wmscsvconnector/ Generic CSV import and export connector based on the import/export API (see wmsconnectorapi). Provides abstract implementations of CSV import and export connectors.
Import / Export Connector: FWTF	http://www.wcmexchange.com/wmsfwtfconnector/ Generic FWTF import and export connector based on the import/export API (see wmsconnectorapi). Provides abstract implementations of FWTF import and export connectors.
Import / Export Connector: SQL	http://www.wcmexchange.com/wmssqlconnector/ Generic SQL import and export connector based on the import/export API (see wmsconnectorapi). Provides abstract implementations of SQL import and export connectors.