From graffito-dev-return-1222-apmail-incubator-graffito-dev-archive=www.apache.org@incubator.apache.org Fri Sep 01 21:40:18 2006 Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-graffito-dev-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 52286 invoked from network); 1 Sep 2006 21:40:14 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (209.237.227.199) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 1 Sep 2006 21:40:14 -0000 Received: (qmail 85033 invoked by uid 500); 1 Sep 2006 21:40:14 -0000 Mailing-List: contact graffito-dev-help@incubator.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: graffito-dev@incubator.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list graffito-dev@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 85022 invoked by uid 99); 1 Sep 2006 21:40:14 -0000 Received: from asf.osuosl.org (HELO asf.osuosl.org) (140.211.166.49) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Fri, 01 Sep 2006 14:40:14 -0700 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.5 required=10.0 tests=DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (asf.osuosl.org: domain of christophe.lombart@gmail.com designates 64.233.184.239 as permitted sender) Received: from [64.233.184.239] (HELO wr-out-0506.google.com) (64.233.184.239) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Fri, 01 Sep 2006 14:40:12 -0700 Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i5so441700wra for ; Fri, 01 Sep 2006 14:39:52 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=VhbCszJU8ur/iRfBH4WUh9gMbAgySwfMLRAfYKnxd0va0EjeSlKyinZ6fG/whtU5nAVDk3PdOsE2876N8cw0G1cI1FV1k3sA2Abbp0NeoubrPRez8LsbKBHEoBKsg6FMh2R/KZMQHeY4FnSdXmgTtaNqEnSLFwolHCVx91qJrCw= Received: by 10.90.78.9 with SMTP id a9mr913768agb; Fri, 01 Sep 2006 14:39:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.90.79.10 with HTTP; Fri, 1 Sep 2006 14:39:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3b728ee90609011439n57282991y82bd1d8db855f657@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 23:39:51 +0200 From: "Christophe Lombart" To: graffito-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Why the Webdav-/Graffito-/FileSystemServer interfaces? In-Reply-To: <8a83c96b0609011158i5e6ade60h9653cced533ada51@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <510143ac0607201611l25fc3ebel4f21d9e58e345ac5@mail.gmail.com> <510143ac0607201822y6fea5b3bp760c2e8f7084263b@mail.gmail.com> <3b728ee90607210137q521f3a3gd3cb38af2696372c@mail.gmail.com> <8a83c96b0608251829p2ce54ce5mec2beee56e790dd6@mail.gmail.com> <44F0B5EC.1070904@wyona.com> <8a83c96b0608270628v251247bax33259c8cbac40bdf@mail.gmail.com> <510143ac0608270645n702cac9dpa84124a594af00f2@mail.gmail.com> <8a83c96b0608270914s53c0de1bha1c448e96c5804e8@mail.gmail.com> <3b728ee90608310144y6fc22aa3y4f0d973486b7d837@mail.gmail.com> <8a83c96b0609011158i5e6ade60h9653cced533ada51@mail.gmail.com> X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org X-Spam-Rating: minotaur.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N > I agree with you that GFT api is much simpler from a developer > perspective, however it's not as feature rich as jcr, and I'd prefer > the CMS to focus on providing generic features for any content rather > than providing less features for a fixed set of types. > I think it is possible to have generic features. The workflow will be a good exemple. It will be possible to define a specific workflow process for any kind of content. Please, give us some examples. what kind of generic features are you thinking about ? > > 4/ One of the most important Graffito goals is to make abstraction on > > the repository nature. Users who have specific content repo can use > > Graffito. There need a new Server impl and a new ContentStore > > implementation. If needed, you can review some issues in this area. > > > > Well, it doesn't seem so easy on top of jcr. If that's the main goal > of graffito it would probably make sense to use a custom api. > The OCM tools will help us to add a strong JCR support from our high level services. Unfortunatly this is not yet implemented. > sure, I could make a prototype. From the list bellow, where I describe > a few items I'd love to see in graffito/j2, I'd like to make a > prototype of the second item. Is it the kind of prototype you had in > mind? > Why not - there are some interesting ideas and nice features.