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 stefanscottal...@gmail.com 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 gl...@exmbly.com 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 philip14...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Has anyone made a CMS for Liftweb? or I should say, in liftweb.
Thanks, Philip
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