Hi Pascal, Wow, That's awesome !
I'm sure this will interest a lot of people... I'm myself very interested and I'd like to play with it for my blog. Looking forward the documentation of this integration! Hope you'll commit it somewhere at some point, too :) Cheers, Jerome. Pascal Voitot wrote: > Hello guys, > I'm back after some months away... > > I wanted to create my small website looking like a website (and not like a > blog) where I could express myself (even if I don't think it is very > interesting ) and where I could test some technologies at the same time... > my live public laboratory... > > I have been working with some CMS for some time now and also with wikis... > Beyond the common discussions about the differences between CMS and Wiki I > can find everywhere, I still think both approaches are compatible and > complementary... > Personnally, I prefer writing, formatting with Wiki syntaxes but I also like > skinning and authoring/publishing mechanisms in CMS... > > I have decided to make an experimentation by designing my website using > Wiki+CMS... > > I have chosen: > - Magnolia CMS since it's designed around a Java lightweight architecture, > fully implementing a JCR storage (this was one of my interests also), it > provides publishing workflow between a private and public instances and it > provides a nice skinning and authoring mechanism... There are lots of > defaults and poor docs in it but this is not the question here. > - XWiki for the wiki because as George says:"What else????"... I also > decided to use only XWiki/2.0 syntax to test it deeply... > > I wanted: > - to use the CMS as the content aggregator and XWiki as one content provider > - to use XWiki remotely and enable content retrieval from several XWikis for > example > - to integrate XWiki pages as paragraphs into a magnolia page containing > other contents > - to allow remote XWiki edition using a "simplified" XWiki editor > > So I have developped: > - a Magnolia module which manages the creation/edition/insertion of XWiki > paragraphs into Magnolia. The XWiki pages are retrieved remotely from one > XWiki server using the XMLRPC API for the time being... > - a "light" XWiki editor based on velocity templates from the basic XWiki > skin. > > You can see the resulting website in this site: > > http://www.mandubian.org > > It's a draft site so please don't look too much at the quantity of content > (and the quality also ;) ) > I will build progressively the website, deliver, document and improve the > XWiki/Magnolia module also and bring new ideas also... > > This is a private server so don't be surprised when it is not very quick! > > regards > Pascal Voitot > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
