The 'forum' is no place to discuss the development of a CMS such as Nukes.
And Nukes is different enough to JBoss to deserve it's own little place
in this world.
I'd like to discuss the creation of another project on SourceForge, where
Nukes development occur and a community can grow and become more involved.
My problem with Nukes is that I see potential, and a whole lot of
potential. It feels well designed, with it's 'hot loadable' modular
approach. It has rudimentry versioning and user/group management among
it's facets. It has taken the right approach, but it could go a lot
further.
I see the potential to develop Nukes into a true groupware application.
No, I'm not talking about Exchange - that's not true groupware, but a
glorified mail server. There are 100s of decent mail servers, any of
which could be used.
I'm thinking Document Management, Workflow, Scheduling and Tasks, the real
essence of groupware. And I think that Nukes is a decent foundation for
creating this. Other modules to cover most of the above can be ported
from PostNuke. It can be acheived and it wouldn't be that difficult.
Nukes could become a full Groupware server with a CMS, as opposed to a CMS
with some slightly Groupware aspects as it is now.
There are issues that need to be addressed. Off the top of my head:
o Nukes needs to be decoupled from JSP until the only JSP stuff is that
in the JSP integration module. JSP should be one of many optional
gateways for communicating with the Nukes server. This would allow
for specific communication modules (IMAP, iCalender, CAP) as well as
other general ones (XMLRPC).
o The versioning needs to be decoupled from the HTML so it can be made
more generic.
A little bit more ambition and Nukes could develop into something amazing.
Does anybody else agree with me on that? I'd like to work *with* the
JBoss crew on doing anything, I'd rather not have to fork off Nukes
myself.
By the way, if you do believe this is possible, Nukes should gain it's own
identity by being renamed (Nukes obviously being derived from PostNuke) to
something else: 'Synergy' perhaps?
- Charlie
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