[opencms-dev] OpenCMS Plug-in? (Module?)

[Tim Mundy]

Hello List,

We've been using OpenCMS for just about a week now and were really excited 
about the different possibilities it brings to the table. Were planning on 
using it for all of our web sites and internal information sources. Along 
with this, we would like to integrate a plug-in inside of OpenCMS. We have 
the technical man power & knowledge to actually implement this, but we were 
hoping for some pointers to help us get started.

The basic idea of what we want to do is be able to click a button on the 
editor which will send the content of the page to our system. We would then 
work on the content and send it back to the CMS when completed.  Other 
bells & whistles would be added upon this as well, but this is the overall 
idea.
We have some questions about where to look into to actually start this 
implementation.

1) Is this plug-in, something that could be completed through the module 
functionality of OpenCMS?
- Can you add content to the basic Administration page via a module? 
(Interface Button / Settings form, ...)
- If a module could not support this, how else would you do it?
- I read through the 
com.alkacon.documentation.documentation-modules_1.0.zip module and I 
appreciate the administration knowledge that was inside of it. But does 
OpenCMS have any more detailed documentation about the technical details of 
implementing a module?

2) Does OpenCMS have an API which would enable us to access the content in 
the same standard OpenCMS way?
- Any documentation on this API?
- Any documentation available that is more suited to a developer, rather 
then a end user?

3) Has anyone completed a similar type of plug-in to extend the 
functionality of OpenCMS?

We know that there is a fair amount of work to complete this plug-in, but 
were excited about starting development on it. We reviewed other CMS tools 
to implement this plug-in with and we have decided to go with OpenCMS. We 
would also be happy to release this plug-in as part of the OpenCMS core, or 
an optional download from the OpenCMS site.

Thank you for your time,


Tim Mundy
Software Developer
E-mail: Tim.Mundy at babelfish.com
Phone: 780.944-9964
Fax: 780.432.5700
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