The idea of building a Jetspeed based CMS using Slide would be an excellent idea once Slide fully supports WebDAV 1&2, DASL, DAV ACL, and DeltaV. If we combined Jetspeed, Slide, Lucene, some security logic, and the Java version of OpenOffice SDK (for MS Office document filtering) we would have a powerful and portable document management system that could complete with Documentum, FileNet, QuickPlace and Livelink for most people's uses. In the meantime, integrating jetspeed with the excellent java based webDAV server from Xythos (www.xythos.com) might accomplish people's CMS goals and at lower cost than some of the big commercial CMS/document management solutions.
Using Ekit for HTML editing sounds like a great idea. Perhaps we could convince the author to license it under Apache's license. boyd > -----Original Message----- > From: Christophe Lombart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 5:17 PM > To: Jetspeed Developers List > Subject: Re: CMS service > > > The main goal of Slide is accessing a CMS repository by using > different > ways : > * A webdav server implemented via a servlet. In this case, all webdav > clients like Word or many others can access directly to the > content for > update. > * Some java components which provides a complete java API for > accessing > a repository. So, you can build a new jetspeed service which will use > this API for making retrieve, update, .... > > Slide version 2 will be based on new a java API standardisation (see > http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=170). > > Furthermore, Slide gives the possibility to store your > content where you > want (even in a legacy system). You need to write a specific > store which > can be seen as a driver. For me, it is the best candidate for > a default > cms implementation for jetspeed. Transaction, versionning, lock is > supported and security component is flexible. For example > with a small > amount of code, you can intergrate the jetspeed security model into > Slide security model. > > I'm agree, Slide vocation is to store the content and not > edit it. So, > we still need some very simple editors which can plug into portlet or > access content managed by product like OpenCms, Zope and many others. > > The big deal is there, either a lot of jetspeed user need > simple editor > plugged into portlets or used only jetspeed for content > publication. In my case, my customer is not interested to > learn Jetspeed + OpenCms or > Zope or what ever. > I found in other portal solutions, interesting approach. One of them > gives the possibility to edit the content via a 4 simple ways : > * Upload > * Multi line input field. Why not for a very small content > * Ekit which is a java applet editor(hope that there is not license > problem for jetspeed) > * Active X HTML editor > > We can also provide a jetspeed webdav action. I make some experience > with that and seems to be work. When user want to edit a document, he > can do that direclty from a rich webdav client and save this > content via > this webdav action. I propose an action for a better integration with > jetspeed. > > Compare to Slide, products like OpenCms seems to be more difficult to > integrate and it is a nonsense (too many features in common like > security management, personnalisation, ...) but maybe > accessing their > "proprietary" repository is nice (eg. portlet which display a content > stored in OpenCms). > If someone has some experience with OpenCms, I'm interesting > to know how > is it flewible ? Is there a java API ? what about the security model ? > > In summary, I think if jetspeed has a CMS repository like > Slide + some > simple editors + a webdav action, it is a good jump. Later, features > like notifications, workflow can be added - What do you think > about that ? > > > Christophe, > No, I'm not a presale guy for Slide :-) It is a simple and > good product. > One regret : content workflow is missing but it is not really > its mains > goal. > > Weaver, Scott wrote: > > >AFAIK, Slide is more of api to build a CMS application using WebDAV, > >not a full featured CMS application like OpenCMS. Someone > correct me > >if I'm wrong. > > > >*===================================* > >* Scott T Weaver * > >* Jakarta Jetspeed Portal Project * > >* [EMAIL PROTECTED] * > >*===================================* > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
