[Z3lab] Why ECM

Tim Terlegård tim at se.linux.org
Wed May 18 17:14:22 CEST 2005


> > I wonder what hole ECM tries to fill. What will ECM provide that Zope 3
> > doesn't provide? In the concept map on z3lab.org I can see translation,
> > indexing etc, but Zope 3 already provides that, right?
>
> Some things on that map are already in Zope3, that's correct. In some
> cases, it's there because something else is needed. There is a
> forms-engine in Zope3 for example, but we need something that is quite
> different, i.e. XML based forms that can be stored in the ZODB.
>
> I don't know if the other overlaps means this are also parts of zope
> that needs enhancements or if it's just there for clarification (the
> EventService, for example).

I think someone already dismissed the idea of listing features of ECM,
but is that really a bad idea? The concept map is just fine, but is it
really a starting point? Before I can say that I need a translation
component I need to know that ECM needs to handle multilingual content
and translate static strings.

Don't you need to know the features before you design? Or the concept
map might not be a design?

Tim



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