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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have been studying OpenCMS for several hours and
I am quite impressed with the overall package and system
architecture.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My 2cents...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Laurent Gauthier</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Mirasol Op'nWorks</FONT></DIV>
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