javax.script glenn wrote: > I think the trick to a really vibrant CMS is the ability to create > plugins - modules in > Lift that can be dynamically installed. I'm not sure how to affect > this except through > OSGi. > > On Aug 19, 8:55 am, TylerWeir <[email protected]> wrote: >> Wonderful! >> >> On Aug 19, 11:03 am, David Pollak <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> FWIW... I got roped into hosting a CMS by the PTA of my kids' school. I may >>> knock something together in Lift or leverage off the work Glenn has done. >>> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Timothy Perrett >>> <[email protected]>wrote: >>>> Just my two cents, but I wouldn't use the lift namespace... If you use the >>>> lift tags OOTB, you risk designers shoving lots of comet actors on a single >>>> page. You would get more granular control if you created a special set of >>>> tags: >>>> <cms:something ...... /> >>>> Cheers, Tim >>>> On 18/08/2009 23:00, "Ewan" <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> I've been scratching my head about that one too. I have used both >>>>> Alfresco and opencms to produce both dynamic and static and in the >>>>> case of dynamic they have their own servlet/filter to render the >>>>> content - I've not yet spent enough time working out how and if they >>>>> can be fitted together. >>>>> For me, having used Hybris (J2EE ecommerce engine with some CMS built >>>>> in), I'd like to be able to have page fragments in a template served >>>>> from "the CMS" (lift snippets presumably) that would be created/ >>>>> maintained with some aspect of workflow by CMS user(s) in an >>>>> associated CMS lift webapp with funky (X)HTML editor support. My web >>>>> guys, non-lift devs, can then sprinkle cms tags where appropriate. A >>>>> tag might be <lift:cms contentId="news" count="5" order="ascending"/> >>>>> which would render the last five news items in ascending order. >>>>> Just some thoughts >>>>> -- Ewan >>>>> On Aug 18, 10:09 pm, "Terry J. Leach" <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> I would like to know how the Lift/Scala can leveraged to with Alfresco >>>>>> or any other open source Java based CMS. >>>>>> Terry J. Leach >>>>>> On Aug 17, 2:09 pm, Stefan Scott <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>> I'll chime in here since I've been evaluating several CMSs lately. >>>>>>> I previously used Drupal and WordPress as my CMSs - now however I'm >>>>>>> moving everything to MODx because of the increased flexibility and >>>>>>> more-logical organization, and I'm also impressed with the demos of >>>>>>> SilverStripe, TypoLight Typo3 - and LifeRay, which is written in Java >>>>>>> instead of PHP. (LifeRay seems to be much more than a CMS - it claims >>>>>>> to offer collaboration and social networking.) >>>>>>> Some on-line demos here: >>>>>>> MODx -http://trymodx.com/ >>>>>>> SilverStripe -http://demo.silverstripe.com/ >>>>>>> TypoLight -http://www.typolight.org/demo.html >>>>>>> Typo3 -http://testsite.punkt.de/ >>>>>>> LifeRay -http://demo.liferay.net/web/guest/home >>>>>>> It would be good to take a look at these additional CMSs as they offer >>>>>>> some capabilities beyond WordPress and Drupal. >>>>>>> Drupal in particular is wildly popular but it may no longer be the >>>>>>> best candidate to imitate, as it is less well-organized and less >>>>>>> flexible/customizable (compared say to MODx, which lets you take CSS >>>>>>> from an existing site and use it for your site, and which lets you >>>>>>> apply a template to a single document, unlike Drupal where a theme >>>>>>> applies to the entire site). To keep up with advanced CMSs, Drupal has >>>>>>> evolved to use a bunch of (often redundant or competing) modules which >>>>>>> are not always compatible with current releases. Examples of things >>>>>>> that Drupal treats as "add-ons" (modules) are: custom content (the >>>>>>> "CCK/Views" modules, with their confusing albeit AJAX-y interface), >>>>>>> multi-language, and photo galleries (I gave up on Drupal after a few >>>>>>> days of trying out various photo gallery modules, none of which I >>>>>>> could understand). Finally, it seems odd that Drupal, as a "content >>>>>>> management system", lacks something all advanced CMSs have: a >>>>>>> *treeview* of the overall site content. Instead, it only has a jumbled >>>>>>> *list* of content, sorted by not by location but by last edited (!), >>>>>>> with all translations also scattered through the list based on last- >>>>>>> edited date, and this list is buried several levels deep in the admin >>>>>>> navigation system, unlike the site content treeview navigator which is >>>>>>> prominently displayed (usually on the left) in advanced CMSs. (Of >>>>>>> course, I don't want to veer off-topic here and start a CMS flame war >>>>>>> here in this liftweb discussion. :-) >>>>>>> Regarding "dynamic site map" creation - I do know that MODx has >>>>>>> something like this, using WayFinder to create a menu from selected >>>>>>> branches of the site's document tree, automatically including any >>>>>>> updated sub-branches, and I believe most other advanced CMSs have >>>>>>> something like this too. >>>>>>> LifeRay seems very intriguing - it claims to do a lot beyond just CMS. >>>>>>> Since it's written in Java (not PHP), who knows if some of its code >>>>>>> could be leveraged in Scala. >>>>>>> So these might be some additional interesting CMSs to keep in mind >>>>>>> (beyond Drupal and WordPress) when building a new CMS using liftweb. >>>>>>> - Stefan Scott >>>>>>> On Aug 16, 3:13 pm, glenn <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>>> Philip, >>>>>>>> I'm working on a cms system in Lift. Right now, it allows for content >>>>>>>> creation using wymeditor, which can be >>>>>>>> tagged and displayed as an atom feed. This code is runnable, simple as >>>>>>>> it is. I'm working on adding dynamic site map creation as well. Is >>>>>>>> this kind >>>>>>>> of what you have in mind by a CMS system. >>>>>>>> I'm very interested in workiing with others on a CMS that can compete >>>>>>>> with any of the PHP varieties out there, such as Drupal and Wordpress. >>>>>>>> Most of these simply use plugins from one ore more javascript >>>>>>>> libraries out there for site creation, and Lift certainly can do >>>>>>>> javascript as well as, if not >>>>>>>> better than, these systems. >>>>>>>> Glenn... >>>>>>>> On Aug 15, 11:08 pm, philip <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>>>> Hi, >>>>>>>>> Has anyone made a CMS for Liftweb? or I should say, in liftweb. >>>>>>>>> Thanks, Philip >>> -- >>> Lift, the simply functional web frameworkhttp://liftweb.net >>> Beginning Scalahttp://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890 >>> Follow me:http://twitter.com/dpp >>> Git some:http://github.com/dpp > > >
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