[opencms-dev] Anybody working on or interested in a "fat" client?

[Anil K Patel]

Idea is interesting, to me it looks like lot of rework.

--- Laurent Gauthier <lgauthier at opnworks.com> wrote:
> I have been studying OpenCMS for several hours and I am quite
> impressed with the overall package and system architecture.
> 
> It strikes me, however, that web content management in general and
> OpenCMS in particular can benefit from a fat client instead of a
> purely thin/browser based client. A thin client cannot be as smooth
> as a fat client with drag and drop, multiple open documents, a
> locally managed state and local but synchonized versions of
> resources.
> 
> An Open source and Java based platform such as Eclipse with its
> plug-in architecture could be used to build a very nice, portable and
> effective client for OpenCMS resource creation and site/project
> administration. Eclipse's plug-in update mechanism could be used to
> keep the client in sync with OpenCMS releases and I presume most of
> the existing OpenCMS services could be harnessed by the client
> application without too many modifications (if any) to the core
> OpenCMS back-end. Finally, Eclipse users could configure the system
> to use their favorite tool sets for HTML/JSP/XML/image editing and a
> lot of things could happen almost magically. I don't think the
> development of such a client would represent a tremendous effort
> (although not trivial by any measure) and would certainly make web
> content management more appealling to the masses if only because
> easier to do and closer to the way they are used to work.
> 
> My 2cents...
> 
> Laurent Gauthier
> Mirasol Op'nWorks
> www.opnworks.com
> 
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Regards
Anil K Patel
Aditisoft Inc
www.aditisoft.com
We provide OpenCMS implementation services