Re: Extensible CMS Framework

At 10:29 AM 4/05/2005, Darryl Kuhn wrote:

>We are currently evaluating existing content management solutions. One of 
>our primary concerns (among our list of requirements) is that we want to 
>leverage existing technologies that have been engineered in house. For 
>example we would like to leverage the existing source control and staging 
>system that we have built with TLA rather than switch our source control 
>over to some arbitrary source control that is build into the CMS we 
>choose. Through the research process I've come to realize that what I'm 
>really looking for is an extensible working CMS that serves as a framework 
>which manages the interactions between CMS components (e.g. document work 
>flow, access control, source control, i18n, publishing, etc...) and allows 
>us to plug in our own code where we want to take over control of a CMS 
>task (e.g. source control). For an example of this style of application 
>see Eclipse (http://www.eclipse.org/org/index.html). Is there anything 
>like this out there? We'd like to find something in either PHP or Java 
>since we have developers who are experts in those languages, but this is 
>only a preference. If you need anymore information (additional 
>requirements, etc...) please let me know.

In general, things like version control are an integral part
of a CMS application, for many good reasons. While many products
allow integration with 3rd-party systems, or the plugging-in of
"modules", this probably won't be low enough level for the
sorts of things you are looking for.

Perhaps one of the major open-source products would be worth
looking at (such as Zope, etc, etc). I presume you have already
factored in a fair amount of coding into the project?

Cheers,
James

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James Robertson
Step Two Designs Pty Ltd
Knowledge Management / Content Management / Intranets

http://www.steptwo.com.au/
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