[opencms-dev] XML structured content & product data

[Jose Felix Hernandez]

Hi there,

I am evaluating OpenCms, my intention is to develop a module for e-business. 
Basically a virtual shop, with some other features as assortments, 
promotions, merchants, and whatever valuable I can think of.

I have read in the documentation that with the XML structured content is 
possible to create content of articles, products descriptions, etc. But when 
I try to create a new resource of type "Structured Content", there is only a 
choice between "Article", "widgetdemo", "bookmark" and "Generic XML content". 
I have installed the OpenCms 6.0 alpha 3 version.

So my question is; Is the content type Product going to be included on 
future releases? Or should I write a specification for that kind of content?

One other thing is that I am thinking about the possibility of develop these 
new data models using EJBs and then create a module with an interface for 
OpenCms to access these new objects and retrieve the content, but I will 
loose some of the grate advantages of OpenCms. The only thing driving me to 
do this is that later on it will be easier to do bulk uploads to the 
database of product data. I don't know how difficult this could be using the 
OpenCms database features.

Can anybody give me any advice?

Best Regards.

José F. Hernández