Leszek, Well, I am not so sure how you want to look at it, that is "a document management system using Jetspeed" as opposed to one that runs within or under the existing framework that is Jetspeed.
I have been successful in using Zope. Not to confuse Zope as a Content Management System (CMS) with a DMS. I would urge you to investigate the capabilities of Zope to handle more than the typical web page kind of documents. It can also manage doc/pdf/xls besides html based documents. Zope seems to be very mature and it took me about 3 weeks of study and playing around with it before I realized just how much of an added value it was once deployed. Zope however is independent of the Jetspeed as it has its own server known as ZServer and uses an OO Database. I was able to securely serve documents from my portlets and was also able to run the Zope Management Interface within another portlet for authorized users to manage content. Most users though are viewers of the documents in our system. I used an IFrame Portlet as the basis of serving up content and this only required a short chunk of code server side to facilitate this. Now in our case, the portal serves a host of different companies and the documents that are pushed are usually unique, so within the Zope we could also partition it to host content for each of the client companies or even inherit syndicated content from our digital library. The only trouble, it seems that once you get a good CMS integrated, you next need a robust publishing capability. At this time I am investigating and testing a Zope Product called Silva. So in answer to your question, this is not a prebuild portlet per se however even if you could find the ideal DMS you will not find one size fits all. At least with the Zope you have a great deal of flexibility that will tailor to your requirements without a great deal of investment in custom development work. Jetspeed has the portlet framework to plug in solutions such as this with minimal effort. Regards, John Wubbel Securitydirector, LLC On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 14:48, Leszek Szlachetka wrote: > Hello, > > I'm looking to build a document management system (DMS) using Jetspeed. But I wonder > if there are already any prebuild portlets that manage documents. > > In that regard is there any tool that would display files directly from the > harddrive. Also, is it possible to launch MS Word/Excel documents from Jetspeed > (clicking on the link ) and then edit them and save them back directly to Jetspeed? > > > Any help, links are greatly appreciated, > Leszek > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
