Andreas, Thank you for the quick response.
At this point our requirement is the user should be a able to CRU documents and maintain version history (the D in the CRUD would be a soft delete since we need to maintain history), just like a source control repository. After the user commit the changes (publishes) the document it should be available to external vendors outside the firm through a web based application. The documents will be in thousands if not hundreds of thousands. Based your description below Lenya is a great choice for web content management and our requirement is more on document management. Thanks again for your pointers to look into Jackrabbit and Sling. Andreas Hartmann wrote: > > Hi Nitty, > > Nitty schrieb: >> I am a seasoned enterprise java programmer working for financial firm and >> newbie to the world of content management. >> >> We have a project that requires documents CRUD along with versioning, it >> is >> a J2EE web-based application and will be used by people both inside and >> outside the firm for publishing documents. > > Lenya shines when it comes to web content management, structured XML > content, and complex XML processing in the presentation layer. So if you > want to build a complex content-oriented web application with custom > document types and server-side processing, Lenya is a very good option. > It simplifies typical web content issues a lot – link management, > publishing workflows, rendering in different output formats etc. > > If you are looking for a repository which treats documents as black > boxes and allows CRUD via a Java API or REST, there might be better > solutions (Apache Jackrabbit if you use Java, Apache Sling if you use > REST and need a web GUI). > > Another question is the amount of documents you want to manage. Lenya is > targeted for websites, so typical installations contain a couple of > thousand documents. If you need to store hundreds of thousands or even > millions of documents, you'd have to use a custom repository with Lenya > (e.g., a JCR-based one), which will require quite a lot of customization > work. > >> Instead of developing a home grown solution I was looking to open source >> (**non too invasive) solution and found that there are several out there. >> >> I was wondering if I could use Lenya for my requirement, if yes - where I >> can find more info like tutorials, knowledge base forums etc. > > Our forum is basically the mailing list archive: > http://lenya.apache.org/community/ml.html#N10095 > > You'll find some tutorials on the website and some more info on the Wiki > (wiki.apache.org/lenya). > > -- Andreas > > > -- > Andreas Hartmann, CTO > BeCompany GmbH > http://www.becompany.ch > Tel.: +41 (0) 43 818 57 01 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Newbie-to-Content-Management---General-Question-tp20799921p20801160.html Sent from the Lenya - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
