RE: Portal Questions

2004-09-07 Thread JACOB, ERIC
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 06, 2004 10:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Portal Questions At 9/6/2004 05:25 PM, you wrote: Would there be a way of using the users Windows Active Directory credentials to automatically log into the Cocoon Portal? It certainly is possible

RE: Portal Questions

2004-09-06 Thread Matthew Langham
Hi Alan, First off (you may know this already), the Cocoon portal is a framework of components that allows you to build custom portals. It is not an out of the box portal solution like for example - Plumtree. That being said, Cocoon itself offers many advantages as a whole and there are plenty of

Re: Portal Questions

2004-09-06 Thread Ralph Goers
At 9/6/2004 02:20 AM, you wrote: 3. Document and Records Management Are there any recommended open source document management systems (preferably Java based) that integrate well with CP? Anyone have any specific experiences with these? I'm fairly non technical, operating at an executive

Re: Portal Questions

2004-09-06 Thread Ugo Cei
Il giorno 06/set/04, alle 18:12, Ralph Goers ha scritto: Matthew's comments were right on the mark. I would just like to add a bit about the content management as I have been looking at content management systems for the past 2 weeks. First, the only industry standard is JSR 170 and it has

Re: Portal Questions

2004-09-06 Thread Ralph Goers
At 9/6/2004 10:00 AM, you wrote: You might want to take a look at Magnolia (www.magnolia.info) which is said to be entirely based on the JCR (a.k.a. JSR-170). I don't know what this means in practice but I plan to do some explorations this week. Thanks, I did. It uses the reference

RE: Portal Questions

2004-09-06 Thread Alan M. Cox
Hi Ralph From my research I found a couple of open source projects that looked workable, Apache Slide and MMBase, although I haven't done much beyond evaluating them. You can see an extensive list of Java based content management systems at

RE: Portal Questions

2004-09-06 Thread Alan M. Cox
Thanks for this Matthew. Single sign-on to the external systems could then be implemented in the respective pipelines. You would need to maintain a central mapping of portal logon to the different systems (for example using LDAP) and then access the required information in the pipeline and

RE: Portal Questions

2004-09-06 Thread Ralph Goers
At 9/6/2004 05:25 PM, you wrote: Would there be a way of using the users Windows Active Directory credentials to automatically log into the Cocoon Portal? It certainly is possible. Cocoon's authentication framework uses a pipeline to perform the authorization. I wrote an Authentication Generator

RE: Portal Questions

2004-09-06 Thread Alan M. Cox
I'm not sure what Universal search is. Cocoon supports Lucene. Is that the same thing? Universal Search is the capability to index and search 'universally' over a number of disparate content sources. It appears that Lucene may have such capability. An FAQ on Lucene is here: