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Does WCM supports those features?

ilink — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:15:26 GMT

Hello all. Probably I've choosed wrong forum. I am sorry if so, but can you please tell me, if WCM supports following features:* Search engine friendly URLS. i.e.: /information/company/contact.* Presentation layer, separated from business logic. Some templates engine? Probably XSLT?* Cache data for

Re: Does WCM supports those features?

pmonks — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:17:30 GMT

As described elsewhere (eg. http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=13139) Alfresco WCM is currently primarily a content management system rather than a presentation layer management system (although that will change once ADW ships).

What this means is that Alfresco WCM tries to stay out of the way in the delivery tier - things like the technology platform used in the delivery tier, the URL format, MVC model used (or not), caching strategies etc. are not dictated or limited in any way by Alfresco. We simply deploy approved content out to your delivery tier (whatever it is) and let you choose the best way to deliver that content to your audience.

Cheers,
Peter

Re: Does WCM supports those features?

ilink — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:51:28 GMT

Thanks.
That means I can implement presentation layer in the way I like?
Are there some existing solutions or examples?

Re: Does WCM supports those features?

ilink — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:35:32 GMT

I think I should describe situation in more specific manner.

We are now looking for good CMS to build corporate web site with. Informational pages, news and so on.
It should adequate requirements I mentioned in first post, because we have separate team of HTML coders and SEO guys and that is their requests.

We have developers and we can spend some time (about week or two) creating modules, and I am trying to understand: is Alfresco a tool , we've looked for?

Re: Does WCM supports those features?

zaizi — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:11:45 GMT

The best way to think about it is; Alfresco provides "content as a service". WCM lets your developers, authors, editors, SEOs, designers, etc. collaborate, create, version, manage and deploy content. Content can be press release, news items, documents, images, graphics, etc. This Alfresco does really well.

Once, the content is baked and ready to be published it is up to you on how to deliver it. There are lot of variety of web frameworks out there that you can use. It can be something as simple as JSPs pages to using Drupal or even Sharepoint. The choice is entirely yours. With our Clients we done couple of different implementations and have prototyped a lot more. Some of the ones we've come across;

1. Simple JSPs
2. Apache Tiles
3. Google Web Toolkit
4. Script# (.Net Google Web Toolkit: http://projects.nikhilk.net/ScriptSharp/Default.aspx)
5. XQuery (More powerful than XSLT and has built-in http accessor methods to call web scripts)

Take your pick!