Hi Michael, Personally, I wouldn't do anymore than the most basic CMS work with the existing OFBiz component, but maybe I'm biased because I want to see it replaced :-)
In regards to working together, my spare time is pretty limited so I doubt that I'll be working very fast and probably nowhere near fast enough for your needs. If people are interested in helping out with my POC then we can always consider creating a jackrabbit branch in the OFBiz repo that people can use to collaborate. The main reason I'm looking at a direct Jackrabbit integration is simply for learning purposes and to get a better understanding of what the best long term approach will be, there is every chance that it would never get merged back into the trunk if we later decide to take a different route. Regards Scott On 8/07/2010, at 6:07 PM, Michael Xu (xudong) wrote: > hi Scott, > > Thanks. > > We are customizing ofbiz for a customer here in China. Party, Order, > Agreement, AP/AR, Birt, Catalog are in the current scope and we feel very > comfortable with the flexibility offered by ofbiz. Now customer needs CMS. > However, current CMS component is not that ready in ofbiz. We are evaluating > which way to go: > > 1) enhance current ofbiz CMS component > 2) embed a 3-party CMS as a component > 3) integrate with a standalone 3-party CMS > > Option 1 seems very risky, as we have to re-invent the CMS wheel; Option 3 > seems also very risky, as there are many integration points, like > user/permission, etc. Now I tend to using option 2 just like what you are > doing. Maybe we can work together on this. > > -- > Regards, > Michael Xu (xudong) > > > On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Scott Gray <scott.g...@hotwaxmedia.com>wrote: > >> Hi Michael, >> >> The idea was to add hippo as a component and use their webapp as an interim >> CMS while we build out similar functionality in OFBiz. OFBiz would use the >> JCR API to interact with the underlying repository. >> >> In terms of progress... none. In my spare time I'll be playing around with >> a jackrabbit integration for OFBiz and reading all the articles I can find. >> I feel like I need to better understand the JCR and content models in >> general before doing anything concrete. >> >> Regards >> Scott >> >> On 8/07/2010, at 5:27 PM, Michael Xu (xudong) wrote: >> >>> "Integrating" here means to put Hippo as a ofbiz component or let it as a >>> standalone application but integrating over data/service layer? >>> >>> -- >>> Regards, >>> Michael Xu (xudong) >>> www.wizitsoft.com | Office: (8610) 6267 0615 ext 806 | Mobile: (86) 135 >> 0135 >>> 9807 | Fax: (8610) 62670096 >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Brett Palmer <brettgpal...@gmail.com >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Scott, >>>> >>>> I like the idea of integrating with existing CMS applications. When we >> are >>>> talking about hippo what of their various products are we considering >> here: >>>> >>>> Hippo CMS7 >>>> Hippo Repository 2 >>>> Hippo Site Toolkit 2 >>>> or >>>> Hippo Portal 2.0 >>>> >>>> from www.onehippo.org >>>> >>>> >>>> Brett >>>> >>>> On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 7:57 PM, Scott Gray <scott.g...@hotwaxmedia.com >>>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> 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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