[opencms-dev] How to structure modules

[Jonathan Woods]

+1 to Christian's suggestion, splitting out content types into a separate
project.  It tends to be view-level stuff which varies most between
projects, whereas with a bit of thought you can probably design content
types - and a good deal of the code which processes them - such that they're
reusable.

Jon

> -----Original Message-----
> From: opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org 
> [mailto:opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org] On Behalf Of 
> Christian Steinert
> Sent: 07 July 2009 08:24
> To: The OpenCms mailing list
> Subject: Re: [opencms-dev] How to structure modules
> 
> Marc.Schlegel wrote:
> > Hello Everyone.
> >
> > For my company I am going to create a product website 
> first, but later 
> > we might move the company website to OpenCms as well. Due 
> to that I am 
> > thinking of a good way how to structure my modules (e.g. 
> dependencies).
> > For example, the product website will have a "news" 
> contenttype which 
> > relies in a content-module that is dependent on the 
> template-module. 
> > But "news" are not so special and it would be nice to reuse 
> the same 
> > contenttype for two templates.
> >
> >   
> I think it depends on how big you expect  the modules to 
> become and how many people will work on this in parallel. If 
> the content types and templates don't become too big and if 
> they aren't completely unrelated, then you can probably stick 
> a couple of things into one module to ease deployment. If 
> many people work on this in parallel or if your templates are 
> extremely different without any code re-use between them or 
> if many people will work on this in parallel, then you could 
> split things further, but otherwise, I wouldn't.
> 
> > How should I do this?
> > Or is it better to have just one template module, that 
> actualy has two 
> > (or more) templates and one content-module containing all 
> contenttypes?
> >
> >   
> Having a content module and a templates module sounds like a 
> good approach to me. This was also what entered my mind after 
> I had read the first paragraph of your mail.
> 
> Best Regards
> Christian
> 
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