Desktop to Web in One Click
We’ve been pretty busy the past week sorting through Maven, Surf, Web Scripts and our Spring Integration development tools. Look for some pretty big things to be announced by the end of the month.
In addition to Spring Roo command-line driven tools and STS integration, we’ll also have some really good Maven integration thanks to some great foundation work put in place by Gabriele Columbro. He’s been hard at work spreading the good word on Maven.
If you’ve been keeping up with the Alfresco Meetups, then you’re aware of the vision we’re building toward for Alfresco Web Content Management 4.0 - desktop to the web in one click. Expect to see a lot more on this in the near future. For me personally, this is very exciting. It’s great to be grooving with a company that aspires to such a complete vision.
We began defining this back in the Spring through iterations of discussions, whiteboard sessions and sometimes just scratches on pieces of paper. Today, I happened to find one such piece of paper! This one was put together by none other than our very own esteemed Mark Rogers - core developer at Alfresco (and of the artistic persuasion).
I thought I would share this because it essentially reveals our entire WCM strategy:
That’s basically it. You might have to click on it to see it a bit better but it’s all there. Things. Managed things. Bill. Fred. Composite structures. Deployment arrows. If you can follow the scribbles, you basically have documents starting on the desktop, falling into a common object model coupled with the notion of pub/sub and feeds into web projects. Deployment engines are triggered and content is deployed to the delivery runtime.
Not explicitly shown, but assumed, are the concepts of a single object model and a common deployment framework. The CMIS data services would reside in the box at the bottom (the lucky recipients of the giant deployment arrow gripping the page).
That’s where we’re headed. Look for more news on WCM 4.0 before the end of the year. Much of what gets worked on for this vision will arrive in earlier releases. The very earliest bits, including an improved deployment engine, will arrive starting as early as Alfresco 3.2!
Michael
