On Oct 9, 2007, at 11:38 AM, Vince M. Clark wrote:
OfBiz is moving away from ftl? What is it moving to?
Did I say that? No. Did I phrase things to make it clear that the pattern of using templates for ecommerce is larger and longer lasting than even FTL? Yes.
IMHO your position on eCommerce limits the value of a built in CMS. With the current CMS functionality it is possible to build and maintain a site almost exclusively thru content records and associations, starting with the publish point. Only a skeleton directory structure is necessary in the deployment.It seems reasonable to suggest adding other functionality to a content managed site including eCommerce functionality.
You could certainly do something like this. I don't think it will ever be the default for OFBiz though. The main reason is that version control of code for reliable rollouts of a tested set of code is vital for most sites (unless their tolerance for errors and bugs is very high). You can use revision control in the content management, but that still doesn't solve the problem because there is no reliable way to coordinate code-in-content revisions with revisions of code in the code repository (SVN or the like).
The more common approach is to have the templates in general in the file system using current methods, and put managed content about products, policies, etc, etc in the content management system.
-David
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