[opencms-dev] Portal integration (portlet version?)

[Pomegranate Software- Arash Kaffamanesh]

Hi David,
hi OpenCms friends!

it is possible to push content from OpenCms to Portal environments and 
also pull Applications (portlets: blogs, wikis, etc..) from Portal 
Servers into OpenCms (we are doing this in our recent projects which are 
in producton), so in the first case the Portal Server acts as the 
critical delivery system and in the second case OpenCms is the critical 
delivery system, so it depends mainly on your requirements and existing 
or non- existing portal environments how to integrate OpenCms with 
portals. In one of our recent projects, we had to push content to an 
existing IBM WebSphere Portal Server and in my latest project we are 
going to integrate portlets via iframes into OpenCms pages (OpenCms <-> 
Liferay / JetSpeed / WebSphere 6.1 Integration).

If you are going to build a Social Community and Networking Platform for 
your customer with Web 2.0 / 3.0 ;-) style and concepts, you can do all 
this stuff also with an enterprise enabled, lets say, "Standalone 
OpenCms (Clustered) Portal Framework" ;-). For building OpenCms based 
Social Networking systems, I would suggest to stick with OpenCms and 
integrate mvnForum (or jForum), WordPress (or your desired blogging 
app.) and any wiki (java or php based wikis) into OpenCms, all other 
mentioned features above are already in production and supported through 
OAMP, other community and OCEE modules!

Last but not least, it depends really on your customers requirements, 
use cases, story boards, people and processes and available budget how 
to provide such an environment ;-)

Kind Regards,
Arash


David Valls roure wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> a customer wants a site based on CMS with some common portal functionalities:
> Personal sections; a user managed zone with featured content; LDAP  
> integration; document lifecycle workflow; forum, media gallery,  
> templates, forms, event calendar, blog and wiki support...
>
> can we do all this job using only OpenCMS (without too much development...) ?
> or is a better aproach integrate OpenCMS in a portal environment that  
> supplies all major funcionalities (if it is possible...) ?
>
> Thanks in advice,
>
> David.
>
>
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