Hello, As you all know, the new portal engine, while powerful in functionality has been somewhat :-) lacking in tool support. So, because we know this is an itch many people would like scratched, we've developed a basic tool-framework for the cocoon portal-engine.
The idea behind the framework is that it should be easy to extend given and plug-in new management tools for the portal engine. This could be tools e.g. for user or coplet/layout management etc. The portal tools framework offers a plugin architecture which allows you easily to add new or remove unnecessary tools. By using this architecture a developer can build step by step many small tools (plugins). The framework provides easy access to all necessary portal components and adds additional helpers e.g. for layout modifications. The tools use current Cocoon technologies like Flow, CForms and JXTemplates. As an example we've built a first plugin to configure the portal layout for the user (add/remove/move Tabs/Rows/Cols/Coplets) and some basic user management functionality. We have some documentation for the framework and the examples, too. Yes really :-) We would like donate the tool-framework to the cocoon project and we would be interested in comments as to whether anyone "out there" would be interested in this and if you think you would want to jump in and extend the given - basic - toolset. Kind regards Daniel Dost & Jens Maukisch Competence Center Open Source ------------------------------------------------- S&N AG Tel.: 05251/1581-0 netBank solutions Fax : 05251/1581-71 Klingenderstr. 5 <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> D-33100 Paderborn http://www.s-und-n.de -------------------------------------------------
