Re: [OSCOM] CMS Choices - OpenCms

At 08:36 AM 2/6/2005, Erik Hatcher wrote:
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>Re: search - Lucene!!!  Not that I'm biased or anything - 
>http://www.lucenebook.com - but Lucene is fast, scalable, and used in a 
>vast number of applications proving itself quite capable.
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>         Erik

         Indeed, Lucene has been integrated into OpenCms (OC), an 
excellent, open source CMS. The integration took place by means of a module 
-- OC offers an API for the writing of modules to extend OC's features.

-- Paul Bain

>On Feb 5, 2005, at 4:31 PM, Thomas Bolioli wrote:
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>>I am in the process of deciding on a CMS product for my needs and I need 
>>a little guidance since I have never had a need for CMS before. I can be 
>>pretty flexible as far as technology (java/php/etc;) but I have some 
>>pretty specific needs with regards to function. I would prefer some form 
>>of open source, something that runs on linux, based on open standards (to 
>>the extent they exist) and that has the ability for plug 
>>ins/addons/extensible. Basically, the setup I am looking to implement is 
>>multiple sites by multiple companies so I would like to not have to setup 
>>multiple installations but share one installation but I will use multiple 
>>installations if I need to.

         The next version of OC, version 6, will support virtual hosting, 
which the OC development team calls "multi-site," not virtual hosting. 
Virtual hosting means, in effect, more than one web site on a single web 
server. Version 6 is already in its last "alpha" release, and its first 
"beta" release will probably take place soon.

>>  The sites have a mix of static data and dynamic data presented based on 
>> queried/posted info from user input. Some sites will require events 
>> calenders, search capability, newsletters and address book management 
>> (site address book users, not CMS users). I am a programmer so I can 
>> write/modify plugins to do what I need to do when it does not exist (ie; 
>> that address book thing). The site owners do not (mostly) really need to 
>> create new pages (I am doing it so I can code without wysiwyg), although 
>> one site will need to create new newsletters from templates (or 
>> dynamically based on data...), but they will need to create and edit 
>> events, and other content. That is actually why I need the CMS portion, 
>> just to handle the data entry. I was thinking of writing all of this 
>> myself since an editor is not really needed, just data entry but I would 
>> hate to reinvent the wheel and would prefer to leverage what is out there.
>>The front end site cannot look like a CMS based site so things such as 
>>blog/slash-like packages are out. What I am currently looking at is 
>>Mambo, Midgard/Aegir, Cocoon/Lenya, ezPublish, and openCMS. What is 
>>everyone's opinion of those choices and am I missing something here that 
>>I should be looking at? Is CMS overkill and I should roll my own?

         Do NOT try to roll your own -- it is an _enormous_ amount of work.

>>  I am curious about search.

         See above.

>>  I do not see much out there so any advice on that part would be good. 
>> In a pinch we can use google's API so that is not required.
>>Thanks in advance,
>>Tom