Spike, Are you releasing / selling the code you write of below in anyway ? Will you be presenting on it in a CFUG ? I am very interested by the sound of the work you are doing
Russell -----Original Message----- From: Spike [mailto:spike@;prisma-it.com] Sent: 11 October 2002 13:05 To: Spectra-Talk Subject: RE: Migrating out of Spectra Sure, The system has a database persistence layer that creates a relational database from type definitions. The type definitions are implemented as cfproperty tags in ColdFusion components. Each of these components extends a contentobject.cfc that provides some system properties like datetimecreated,datetimelastupdated etc. contentobject.cfc in turn extends a base cfc that acts as the database interface. It provides several methods for creating, updating, deleting, deploying etc. Each of the Type definition components equates to a type in Spectra. Each Type component has a corresponding layout directory. The layout directory has 2 sub-directories - Management and display. These directories contain the files that would equate to handlers in Spectra. The site model and metadata hierarchies are implemented using the Nested Tree Model (NTM). The functionality of the site model and hierarchies in Spectra could be replicated using these, but I haven't tried that. The system was built to allow the saving of data to both the new system and the CODB at the same time, or to allow the migration of object data from a codb to our system, or vice versa. The main idea being that the most important thing to be able to migrate is the types and the object instances generated from these types. We also felt that it would be important to allow an existing spectra database to be updated using our system so that existing systems could be gradually migrated rather than having to be completely rebuilt at once. Hope that makes some sort of sense. Spike Stephen Milligan Team Macromedia - ColdFusion Co-author 'Reality Macromedia ColdFusion MX: Intranets and Content Management' http://spikefu.blogspot.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Lanny R. Udey [mailto:Lanny.R.Udey@;Hofstra.edu] > Sent: 11 October 2002 13:40 > To: Spectra-Talk > Subject: RE: Migrating out of Spectra > > > Spike, > > Can you give us anymore details on your project? > > Lanny > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/11/02 04:47 AM >>> > You have several options: > > Commonspot is pretty good, as is Shado from straker. > > Neither of them were designed with Spectra migration in mind > though, so you might find that it's quite a lot of work to > move in that direction. > > Since CFMX came out, I know a few people (myself included) > have been working on products that should allow a relatively > pain free migration/integration for existing spectra applications. > > If you ask around a bit more on various lists, I'm sure > you'll find a few more options. > > Spike > > Stephen Milligan > Team Macromedia - ColdFusion > Co-author 'Reality Macromedia ColdFusion MX: Intranets and > Content Management' > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Robert Williams [mailto:rwilliams@;infocomm.org] > > Sent: 11 October 2002 05:45 > > To: Spectra-Talk > > Subject: Migrating out of Spectra > > > > > > Maybe this isn't the best place to ask this, but if I wanted > > to migrate out of Spectra does anyone have any > > reccomendations for a good CMS candidate? I would prefer > > another CF based one, like NQContent , but I am open to other > > technologies. > > > > Hope I didn't ruffle any feathers. Thanks. > > > > rw > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/spectra_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
