OFBiz does have a built-in content repository which is already tied
to many things in the project, including products and such.
One trick with this for ecommerce sites is that you generally don't
want to dynamically (through the app server) host static content such
as images, pdfs, static css/js/html/etc files, and so on. These are
usually moved to at least a different server, and for some sites they
even use a service like Akamai or CacheFly to host them. OFBiz
ecommerce was originally written for this.
What is missing though is a way to take images (for example) from the
content repository and do resize and other operations, and then
promote them to production.
The scope of the web oriented content management features now being
discussed (we have a few clients who are interested in this now, so
it should happen soon... finally...) includes page snippet management
and assembly, integration with other parts of OFBiz (some of the this
is already in place, ie the screen widget is "content aware"),
revision management, dynamic page mounting and linking, and so on.
Adding something like image provisioning could certainly be done, and
static provisioning from the dynamic/managed content repository could
more generally include HTML files, etc, etc... to the imagination and
beyond!
-David
On Dec 16, 2006, at 7:10 AM, Phillip Rhodes wrote:
How does ofbiz handle product images? That's a touch point with a
CMS repository. In the cart that I built (that I am not whatsover
promoting here), I would like to go to a full ERP... Anyway, in
the system that I built, the store manager would upload a product
photo. This product photo needed to be resized to difference sizes
and stored on the filesystem for future reference. I wanted a
"asset library" here, in which the product images would be stored,
referenced and used. There's a apache product out there called
jackrabbit that would be good for this (it's a content repository),
just the repository, not the cms.
Same goes with pdf's and other specifications associated to a
product. If they are in a content repository, one can use them in
the site also. Imagine a 1/2 off weekend sale.
With my understanding of things, I would advocate migrating the
content (images, pdf's, etc) to jackrabbit using their api. Once
in jackrabbit, there are cms systems that can use jackrabbit as
their backend so then your assets can be used in your website.
Phillip
Tim Ruppert wrote:
There are lots of different Content Management efforts going on
all around the project - and I expect that we'll be bringing up
this discussion topic back to the forefront in the next few weeks
as well.
I have not heard much discussion about integrating Alfresco (and
I don't know much about Magnolia), but it is something to
definitely keep in mind. If you have any luck with it or any
specific ideas, please bring it back to the list.
Cheers,
Tim
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Tim Ruppert
HotWax Media
http://www.hotwaxmedia.com
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On Dec 15, 2006, at 9:08 PM, Phillip Rhodes wrote:
Has anyone ever considered integrating a CMS system with ofbiz?
I am thinking alfresco/magnolia, etc... Something that matches
the license and be JCR/JSR 170 complaint.
Thanks
Phillip
