Re: Extensible CMS Framework

Hi Darryl,

Our CMS's versioning component was designed to be able to write  
"drivers" that talk to the original data source (ie. the filesystem)  
as well as the revision store (ie. database, filesystem, dedicated  
versioning software, etc.).  The idea is that you can expose multiple  
data sources all in the same manner within the CMS's UI and still  
have the same versioning features regardless of where they come  
from.  Currently, we haven't extended it beyond versioning files and  
database records, but eventually the plan is to be able to pull data  
from FTP, WebDAV, etc. and to offer more storage back-ends, such as  
CVS and gang,  as well.

Anyway, check it out if you like.  It may be what you're looking for,  
or it may give you some ideas that help in some way.

http://www.sitellite.org/

Cheers,

Lux

On 3-May-05, at 7:29 PM, Darryl Kuhn wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> 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.
>
> Thanks in advance for your responses!
>
> Kind Regards,
> Darryl Kuhn
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