From: Sascha Rodekamp <sascha.rodekamp.lynx...@googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: Hippo CMS
To: dev@ofbiz.apache.org
Date: Wednesday, June 23, 2010, 2:04 AM
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
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