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Golden Palace is a leading on-line casino with many players all over the world.
Frequently the client needs to change the text or image content of their casino web pages, previously this had involved either manual FTPing (in the case of purely static HTML or image files) by the client, or in the case of dynamically generated content, direct intervention of the developers. The whole process was slow, costly, error-prone and insecure.
Lokitech first developed a content management system (CMS) where all contents are centrally stored in one database so that authors can update them using a browser interface, with proper authentication and version management. Then equipped with the Apache Velocity template engine and some custom-written code, Lokitech rewrote all the dynamic pages (JSPs) so that each page is separated into the computation part (which remains in the JSP) and the presentation part (which is moved into a CMS template). This allows HTML content designers to edit the look and feel of dynamic pages painlessly because the CMS templates are not littered with Java code (unlike JSPs).
Now content or look and feel changes can be performed by the HTML content designers quickly, without utilizing valuable developer time. All content changes are versioned and logged so that they can be readily accounted for. Thanks to the innovative CMS "Content Release Manager", experimental contents can be developed and shown to the management while the live content (which is being shown to casino players) remains unchanged and unaffected by on-going content editing.
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