For a while now I've been wanting to access magnolia functions and content via external applications, so I'm looking into what options are currently available and any modules or core enhancements that might already exist. The key requirement would be to communicate with the magnolia backend from another application, possibly running on a different server, in order to retrieve content, and to create pages and users within the system. A mechanism like XML-RPC would seem to be ideal for this purpose.
Looking at the mailing list archives, and through jira, there doesn't seem to have been much discussion of these sorts of features. The closest thing I could find was jira entry MAGNOLIA-587 (http://jira.magnolia.info/browse/MAGNOLIA-587), but this is referring more to the AJAX integration mechanism than for external apps, and doesn't seem to have been progressed anyway. So is there any work in this area that I have missed? If not then my intention is to write a module to add an XML-RPC integration layer to magnolia. If anyone else is interested in this and wants to collaborate on the architecture and/or coding of this then let me know. Thanks for any input, Simon ---------------------------------------------------------------- for list details see http://documentation.magnolia.info/ ----------------------------------------------------------------
