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Complexity and power versus simplicity - Alfresco vs. Pojos

huima — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:08:30 GMT

Hi all,This is a little long posting first explaining my viewpoint and thinking behid my reasoning as well as solitary rambling about my perceptions of CMS landscape, which I would hope to turn into dialogue. Eventually the questions for engineers and community is: what are best practices in startin

Re: Complexity and power versus simplicity - Alfresco vs. Pojos

mrogers — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:04:07 GMT

What a long posting

From Alfresco's perspective we are aiming to do very much what you are asking for.

In particular:
We are anticipating that CMIS will become a big part of working with any repository, alfresco included, much in the way that SQL changed the RDBMS landscape.   And with the CMIS toolkits in development now it should help people get started when all they need is a bog standard content repository.     You may have one of your "dream scenarios" met with the CMIS query language. :wink:

The Alfresco UI is currently in a state of flux with V3 with the introduction of Share and Surf to make it lighter weight and more flexible and capable. Its growing rapidly and is working well.    The next version of Alfresco (3.4) aims to bring WCM to the Surf/Share platform.

What are best practices in starting to build competence and experience in Alfresco through projects?
I'd start with the simple advice of understanding your requirements and starting small and simple.

And if you look back in this forum some-one asked a similar question of whether they should spend time learning to use alfresco or rolling their own solution.    My summary of the thread was that if the requirement is simple enough for you to implement it yourself in say 10 days then roll your own solution.    If not then use a tool like Alfresco.

Re: Complexity and power versus simplicity - Alfresco vs. Pojos

huima — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 15:31:46 GMT

Now that I have gained more experience, wisdom and enlightenment I can actually concur that you were spot on with your response.

I was actually looking forward seeing you at Dev Con at Paris - just to say thank you for your great responses on the forum.

Re: Complexity and power versus simplicity - Alfresco vs. Pojos

mrogers — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 16:56:13 GMT

Thank you. It was good to talk to so many people at DevCon.

New York next week…