[xwiki-devs] Integration of XWiki with Magnolia CMS

Hello guys, I'm back after some months away... I wanted to create my small website looking like a website (and not like a blog) where I could express myself (even if I don't think it is very interesting ) and where I could test some technologies at the same time... my live public laboratory... I have been working with some CMS for some time now and also with wikis... Beyond the common discussions about the differences between CMS and Wiki I can find everywhere, I still think both approaches are compatible and complementary... Personnally, I prefer writing, formatting with Wiki syntaxes but I also like skinning and authoring/publishing mechanisms in CMS... I have decided to make an experimentation by designing my website using Wiki+CMS... I have chosen: - Magnolia CMS since it's designed around a Java lightweight architecture, fully implementing a JCR storage (this was one of my interests also), it provides publishing workflow between a private and public instances and it provides a nice skinning and authoring mechanism... There are lots of defaults and poor docs in it but this is not the question here. - XWiki for the wiki because as George says:"What else????"... I also decided to use only XWiki/2.0 syntax to test it deeply... I wanted: - to use the CMS as the content aggregator and XWiki as one content provider - to use XWiki remotely and enable content retrieval from several XWikis for example - to integrate XWiki pages as paragraphs into a magnolia page containing other contents - to allow remote XWiki edition using a "simplified" XWiki editor So I have developped: - a Magnolia module which manages the creation/edition/insertion of XWiki paragraphs into Magnolia. The XWiki pages are retrieved remotely from one XWiki server using the XMLRPC API for the time being... - a "light" XWiki editor based on velocity templates from the basic XWiki skin. You can see the resulting website in this site: http://www.mandubian.org It's a draft site so please don't look too much at the quantity of content (and the quality also ;) ) I will build progressively the website, deliver, document and improve the XWiki/Magnolia module also and bring new ideas also... This is a private server so don't be surprised when it is not very quick! regards Pascal Voitot