Can someone explain how this approach compares to what WebSlinger brings? -Al
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:44 AM, Jacques Le Roux < [email protected]> wrote: > I have begun to read a bit about JSR170 (JCR) and JackRabbit. There are 2 > aspects in CMS : content management and rendering. So far > I don't understand clearly how is rendering managed in JackRabbit. It seems > to me that JCR is only the content repository part and > you need to build something like Sling upon it, right ? > > I have recently created a tool for a client based on the OFBiz CMS site > demo (thanks Andrew). Using customised showContentTree and > viewContent for templated rendering (menus and contents using specific > CompDocs). It's seems hard to get it 1st but actually it's > not so much and very powerful (lot of things with small modifications). > Then, on the content management side, you get something like > EzPublish (an UI based on a tree for manipulating contents and their > associations). I recently tested Jahia > http://demo.jahia.org/cms, really smart WYSIWYG. From this experience, I'd > like to have the content management as a component based > on JackRabbit with a large dose of Ajax in UI. I think that having a tree > and a direct access to content (like in Jahia) is not > contradictory but complementary. This said I have not tried anything yet > ... > > One thing that OFBiz can offer and no CMS softwares can, is the direct > relation to the ERP data. Here is our power, this is very cost effective. > > So the above may be seen as a sketch of my requirements for a Content > Management Application. Could we talk more about that ? > > Jacques > >
