Migrating Cocoon publication to Lenya

[Justin Almquist <ju...@pnl.gov>]

The past year or so we have been developing a CMS/Knowledge Base built on 
Cocoon.  The key feature of this system is it's ability to reuse elements of a 
page (e.g. paragraph of text or a graphic) across mulitple pages.  These 
reusable pieces of a page are saved to a database and then Cocoon's XSP 
feature is used to dynamically build a page by accessing the database to 
retrieve the contents.

Now we are interested in incorporating more tradional CMS features into the 
system such as workflow, user management, and versioning.  Obviously, Lenya 
has already tackled these problems and is also built on Cocoon.  My question 
is whether or not Lenya can handle managing XSP pages as the "content" of the 
publication.  This is different from the example publications that all have 
static content since our application has very little static content, but 
instead has XSP pages that dynamically create the pages by accessing the 
database.

Any feedback on whether or not this is possible would be greatly appreciated 
as I'd much rather leverage Lenya's hard work than have to reinvent the CMS-
wheel.

Thanks,
Justin


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Re: Migrating Cocoon publication to Lenya

[Justin Almquist <ju...@pnl.gov>]

Jean Pierre LeJacq <jplejacq <at> quoininc.com> writes:

> 
> On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Justin Almquist wrote:
> 
> > Now we are interested in incorporating more tradional CMS features
> > into the system such as workflow, user management, and versioning.
> > Obviously, Lenya has already tackled these problems and is also
> > built on Cocoon.  My question is whether or not Lenya can handle
> > managing XSP pages as the "content" of the publication.  This is
> > different from the example publications that all have static
> > content since our application has very little static content, but
> > instead has XSP pages that dynamically create the pages by
> > accessing the database.
> 
> Yes, it certainly can.
> 
> Do you want to have end user edit the xsp fragments directly?
> Normally, I would place things like xsp outside the editable region
> of the pages.
> 

Yes, the users do need to be able to edit the xsp since they will be acting as 
authors of the page and need to make decisions about the content (which is XSP 
code).  However, another of our primary goals is to create a user interface 
for page creation/modification that hides the technology's gory details from 
the user.

I'm just getting started with Lenya so I'm not even sure which question to ask 
next, but I guess I'll try to get some XSP pages working.  

Thanks,
Justin



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Re: Migrating Cocoon publication to Lenya

[Jean Pierre LeJacq <jp...@quoininc.com>]

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Justin Almquist wrote:

> Now we are interested in incorporating more tradional CMS features
> into the system such as workflow, user management, and versioning.
> Obviously, Lenya has already tackled these problems and is also
> built on Cocoon.  My question is whether or not Lenya can handle
> managing XSP pages as the "content" of the publication.  This is
> different from the example publications that all have static
> content since our application has very little static content, but
> instead has XSP pages that dynamically create the pages by
> accessing the database.

Yes, it certainly can.

Do you want to have end user edit the xsp fragments directly?
Normally, I would place things like xsp outside the editable region
of the pages.

-- 
JP



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