I've been scratching my head about that one too. I have used both Alfresco and opencms to produce both dynamic and static and in the case of dynamic they have their own servlet/filter to render the content - I've not yet spent enough time working out how and if they can be fitted together.
For me, having used Hybris (J2EE ecommerce engine with some CMS built in), I'd like to be able to have page fragments in a template served from "the CMS" (lift snippets presumably) that would be created/ maintained with some aspect of workflow by CMS user(s) in an associated CMS lift webapp with funky (X)HTML editor support. My web guys, non-lift devs, can then sprinkle cms tags where appropriate. A tag might be <lift:cms contentId="news" count="5" order="ascending"/> which would render the last five news items in ascending order. Just some thoughts -- Ewan On Aug 18, 10:09 pm, "Terry J. Leach" <terry.le...@gmail.com> wrote: > I would like to know how the Lift/Scala can leveraged to with Alfresco > or any other open source Java based CMS. > > Terry J. Leach > > On Aug 17, 2:09 pm, Stefan Scott <stefanscottal...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I'll chime in here since I've been evaluating several CMSs lately. > > > I previously used Drupal and WordPress as my CMSs - now however I'm > > moving everything to MODx because of the increased flexibility and > > more-logical organization, and I'm also impressed with the demos of > > SilverStripe, TypoLight Typo3 - and LifeRay, which is written in Java > > instead of PHP. (LifeRay seems to be much more than a CMS - it claims > > to offer collaboration and social networking.) > > > Some on-line demos here: > > > MODx -http://trymodx.com/ > > SilverStripe -http://demo.silverstripe.com/ > > TypoLight -http://www.typolight.org/demo.html > > Typo3 -http://testsite.punkt.de/ > > LifeRay -http://demo.liferay.net/web/guest/home > > > It would be good to take a look at these additional CMSs as they offer > > some capabilities beyond WordPress and Drupal. > > > Drupal in particular is wildly popular but it may no longer be the > > best candidate to imitate, as it is less well-organized and less > > flexible/customizable (compared say to MODx, which lets you take CSS > > from an existing site and use it for your site, and which lets you > > apply a template to a single document, unlike Drupal where a theme > > applies to the entire site). To keep up with advanced CMSs, Drupal has > > evolved to use a bunch of (often redundant or competing) modules which > > are not always compatible with current releases. Examples of things > > that Drupal treats as "add-ons" (modules) are: custom content (the > > "CCK/Views" modules, with their confusing albeit AJAX-y interface), > > multi-language, and photo galleries (I gave up on Drupal after a few > > days of trying out various photo gallery modules, none of which I > > could understand). Finally, it seems odd that Drupal, as a "content > > management system", lacks something all advanced CMSs have: a > > *treeview* of the overall site content. Instead, it only has a jumbled > > *list* of content, sorted by not by location but by last edited (!), > > with all translations also scattered through the list based on last- > > edited date, and this list is buried several levels deep in the admin > > navigation system, unlike the site content treeview navigator which is > > prominently displayed (usually on the left) in advanced CMSs. (Of > > course, I don't want to veer off-topic here and start a CMS flame war > > here in this liftweb discussion. :-) > > > Regarding "dynamic site map" creation - I do know that MODx has > > something like this, using WayFinder to create a menu from selected > > branches of the site's document tree, automatically including any > > updated sub-branches, and I believe most other advanced CMSs have > > something like this too. > > > LifeRay seems very intriguing - it claims to do a lot beyond just CMS. > > Since it's written in Java (not PHP), who knows if some of its code > > could be leveraged in Scala. > > > So these might be some additional interesting CMSs to keep in mind > > (beyond Drupal and WordPress) when building a new CMS using liftweb. > > > - Stefan Scott > > > On Aug 16, 3:13 pm, glenn <gl...@exmbly.com> wrote: > > > > Philip, > > > > I'm working on a cms system in Lift. Right now, it allows for content > > > creation using wymeditor, which can be > > > tagged and displayed as an atom feed. This code is runnable, simple as > > > it is. I'm working on adding dynamic site map creation as well. Is > > > this kind > > > of what you have in mind by a CMS system. > > > > I'm very interested in workiing with others on a CMS that can compete > > > with any of the PHP varieties out there, such as Drupal and Wordpress. > > > Most of these simply use plugins from one ore more javascript > > > libraries out there for site creation, and Lift certainly can do > > > javascript as well as, if not > > > better than, these systems. > > > > Glenn... > > > > On Aug 15, 11:08 pm, philip <philip14...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > Has anyone made a CMS for Liftweb? or I should say, in liftweb. > > > > > Thanks, Philip > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. 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