On 10/12/2010 8:55 AM, Adam Heath wrote:
On 10/12/2010 10:25 AM, Adrian Crum wrote:
Actually, a discussion of database versus filesystem storage of content
would be worthwhile. So far there has been some hyperbole, but few facts.
How do you edit database content? What is the procedure? Can a simple
editor be used? By simple, I mean low-level, like vi.
How do you find all items in your content store that contain a certain
text word? Can grep and find be used?
How do you handle moving changes between a production server, that is
being directly managed by the client, and multiple developer
workstations, which then all have to go first to a staging server? Each
system in this case has its own set of code changes, and config+data
changes, that then have to be selectively picked for staging, before
finally being merged with production.
What about revision control? Can you go back in time to see what the
code+data looked like? Are there separate revision systems, one for the
database, and another for the content? And what about the code?
For users/systems that aren't capable of using revision control, is
there a way for them to mount/browse the content store? Think nfs/samba
here.
Storing everything directly into the filesystem lets you reuse existing
tools, that have been perfected over countless generations of man-years.
I believe Jackrabbit has WebDAV and VFS front ends that will accommodate
file system tools. Watch the movie:
http://www.day.com/day/en/products/crx.html
-Adrian
-Adrian
On 10/12/2010 7:32 AM, Marc Morin wrote:
With all the other technologies in ofbiz, seems like webslinger just
adds more stuff onto the pile. I don't want to argue the technical
merits of database or file system persistence for a CMS, but it
appears like ofbiz would benefit from reducing the number of
technologies used, and increase the amount of re-use of technologies
it already has.
So, for me, that means entity/service/screen/presentment models are
the core technologies. Galvanizing initiatives around those appear to
provide leverage.
Now don't get me wrong, the "CMS" that is native in ofbiz is
incomplete and needs a lot of work... and for our use case of
providing self edited web sites and ecommerce sites, that appears a
better starting point. We have done things to add self editing etc...
but we need to put a lot more effort into that to ensure that there is
a real solution.
my $0.02.
Marc Morin
Emforium Group Inc.
ALL-IN Software
519-772-6824 ext 201
[email protected]
----- Original Message -----
On 10/11/2010 10:07 PM, Nico Toerl wrote:
On 10/12/10 01:41, Adam Heath wrote:
<snip>
Now, here it comes. The url to the site.
http://ofbizdemo.brainfood.com/.
Things to note. There are *no* database calls *at all*. It's all
done with files on disk. History browsing is backed by git, using
jgit to read it directly in java. CSS styling is rather poor. Most
unimplemented pages should do something nice(instead of a big read
'Not Yet Implemented'); at least there shouldn't be an exceptions
on those pages.
that sounded real interesting and i thought i have to have a look at
this, unfortunately all i got is:
HTTP Status 500 -
------------------------------------------------------------------------
*type* Exception report
*message*
*description* _The server encountered an internal error () that
prevented it from fulfilling this request._
*exception*
java.lang.NullPointerException
WEB_45$INF.Events.System.Request.DetectUserAgent_46$jn.run(DetectUserAgent.jn:166)
Hmm, nice, thanks.
Your user-agent is:
"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-GB; rv:1.9.2.9)
Gecko/20100824 Firefox/3.6.9"
The (x86_64) is what is causing the problem, I hadn't seen this type
of string in the wild. The regex doesn't like nested (). It's fixed
now.
