Abstract: A system for managing a content management system (CMS), including, a plurality of servers for hosting the CMS, the CMS is accessed via a web editor that is executed on a client browser and provides access to functionality of the CMS for defining a content project, the web editor further provides access to an APP marketplace, the APP marketplace providing access to a plurality of APPS which can be added to the content project for use via the web editor; a server-side web editor configured to receive data indicating selection to add an APP to the content project, wherein responsive to launching editing of the content project in the web editor, then the APP is launched in accordance with an application framework that causes assignment of an identity to the APP for making content management API calls to the CMS for creating and editing structured content of the content project.

Abstract: A process for rendering a user interface that provides access to applications that integrate with a content management system (CMS), includes: providing a content management API configured to enable creating or updating a content project; receiving a command to enable an APP for the content project, wherein the APP includes a front-end component; providing, over a network, a web editor of the CMS to access the content project, wherein the APP and the front-end component are launched in an APP runtime environment of a client browser that is independent of a web editor runtime environment in which the web editor is executed, and wherein the execution of the web editor renders the user interface, and the service provided by the APP is visually integrated with services of the web editor in a predefined context of the user interface.

Abstract: An application framework for interfacing applications with a content management system (CMS), includes: the CMS configured to provide access to create or update a content project via a content management API; providing an interface to enable adding of an APP to the CMS, the APP is configured to provide a service to be used within the CMS; providing, over a network, a web editor of the CMS to access the content project, wherein responsive to execution of the web editor for the content project in a client browser, the APP is launched in an APP runtime environment that is independent of a web editor runtime environment in which the web editor is executed; wherein API calls received from the APP for the content management API of the CMS are automatically run through a security process of the application framework, the security process is configured to apply a checking process to API calls of the APP.