Hi Scott, jep that's sounds like a plan. In my opinion concentrating on Jackrabbit will be the best point to start.
We should make some Jira Tasks and schedule them that we can start implementing ASAP :-). Did we need a separate Brunch? Cheers Sascha 2010/6/23 Scott Gray <scott.g...@hotwaxmedia.com> > Hi Sascha, > > Any help would of course be very much appreciated. > > I think regardless of what approach we take, everyone is mostly in > agreement that we will be integrating with Jackrabbit or more importantly we > will be making use of the JCR interface (in theory the actual JCR > implementation should be irrelevant). One thing I'm fairly sure we will > need is a JAAS authentication module (and probably authorization) that we > can plug in to the jackrabbit repository so that it can authenticate users > via OFBiz. That should be fairly straightforward I think, I'm less certain > about what an authorization mechanism would look like. > > I guess we're also going to need to some sort of session provider interface > that allows OFBiz to retrieve sessions from either an embedded repo or > remote server repo and once again, it needs to be able to work with any JCR > implementation. I'm not entirely sure what that would look like at this > stage but any thoughts on the topic would be useful. > > Most of the other questions come back to the content model and who controls > it, will it be OFBiz or a random CMS or perhaps they will have separate > models with some sort of jackrabbit internal synchronization between the > two? We need to look at these options and understand the pros and cons of > each before we can move forward with any sort of certainty. > > Regards > Scott > > On 22/06/2010, at 6:26 PM, Sascha Rodekamp wrote: > > > +1 > > > > i like the idea integrating a full featured CMS in ofbiz, a few weeks ago > we > > started working with JCR but i think the Hippo way is a good one too :-) > > So Scott i would volunteer to help you :-) ... > > > > Have a good day > > Sascha > > > > 2010/6/19 Scott Gray <scott.g...@hotwaxmedia.com> > > > >> Anybody using or considered using Hippo CMS (onehippo.org) in > conjunction > >> with OFBiz? > >> - Apache Licensed > >> - Uses Jackrabbit as its repository > >> - Supports Versioning, Internationalization, Publishing Workflows and > more > >> > >> We could start out by using Hippo's UI to manage content and retrieve it > >> for display within OFBiz using the JCR API. As the various document > types > >> needed by the OFBiz base applications begin to take shape we could look > at > >> ways to allow the content to be modified directly from within OFBiz > (once > >> again using the JCR API). > >> > >> Any thoughts, alternatives, ideas or whatever would be appreciated. I'm > >> considering working on a POC in my spare time, not sure how long that > might > >> take at this stage. I already have a copy of Hippo running inside OFBiz > but > >> that was just a matter of expanding their WAR distribution and wrapping > it > >> in a component, next step would be gaining access to the repo from OFBiz > >> code. > >> > >> Thanks > >> Scott > >> > >> HotWax Media > >> http://www.hotwaxmedia.com > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Sascha Rodekamp > > Lynx-Consulting GmbH > > Johanniskirchplatz 6 > > D-33615 Bielefeld > > http://www.lynx.de > > -- Sascha Rodekamp Lynx-Consulting GmbH Johanniskirchplatz 6 D-33615 Bielefeld http://www.lynx.de
