Comments on: Spring, Roo, and Alfresco Too: What Alfresco Gave to Spring and Why http://ecmarchitect.com/archives/2009/12/16/1076 Jeff Potts on ECM, portals, search, collaboration, and a bunch of personal stuff Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:25:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Gordon Dickens http://ecmarchitect.com/archives/2009/12/16/1076/comment-page-1#comment-49160 Gordon Dickens Mon, 29 Mar 2010 13:12:00 +0000 http://ecmarchitect.com/?p=1076#comment-49160 It seems like this site shortens the URL for you... concatenate these two strings below together for the zip location: http://www.springsurf.org/downloads/1.0.0.M2/ spring-surf-roo-addon-1.0.0.M2-roo-addon.zip It seems like this site shortens the URL for you…

concatenate these two strings below together for the zip location:

http://www.springsurf.org/downloads/1.0.0.M2/

spring-surf-roo-addon-1.0.0.M2-roo-addon.zip

]]> By: Gordon Dickens http://ecmarchitect.com/archives/2009/12/16/1076/comment-page-1#comment-49135 Gordon Dickens Sun, 28 Mar 2010 19:46:10 +0000 http://ecmarchitect.com/?p=1076#comment-49135 To install for Spring Roo... 1. Install the addon from the Roo prompt: roo> addon install --url http://www.springsurf.org/downloads/...-roo-addon.zip 2. In your project at the Roo prompt: roo> surf install To install for Spring Roo…

1. Install the addon from the Roo prompt:

roo> addon install –url http://www.springsurf.org/downloads/…-roo-addon.zip

2. In your project at the Roo prompt:

roo> surf install

]]> By: Bernie http://ecmarchitect.com/archives/2009/12/16/1076/comment-page-1#comment-46596 Bernie Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:02:53 +0000 http://ecmarchitect.com/?p=1076#comment-46596 Hi Jeff, Thanks for clarifying that for me. You have a fantastic web site Jeff and I appreciate you sharing your expertise like this. Bernie Hi Jeff,

Thanks for clarifying that for me. You have a fantastic web site Jeff and I appreciate you sharing your expertise like this.

Bernie

]]> By: jpotts http://ecmarchitect.com/archives/2009/12/16/1076/comment-page-1#comment-46568 jpotts Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:41:02 +0000 http://ecmarchitect.com/?p=1076#comment-46568 Bernie, The biggest difference is the enormous size of the Joomla and Drupal communities compared to the smaller community of developers working on and contributing to Spring Surf. Now that Surf is part of Spring, maybe that will start to change but Joomla and Drupal have a huge head start. The other big difference is that Joomla and Drupal were purpose-built to be community platforms. So there is a lot of breadth and depth there that doesn't exist in Surf. That's not a knock on Surf--it's just that Surf was not intended to be as broad as something like Drupal. Really, you should think of Surf as a framework for developing Alfresco- or, potentially, CMIS-centric applications. It isn't an end-user tool by any stretch of the imagination. Jeff Bernie,

The biggest difference is the enormous size of the Joomla and Drupal communities compared to the smaller community of developers working on and contributing to Spring Surf. Now that Surf is part of Spring, maybe that will start to change but Joomla and Drupal have a huge head start.

The other big difference is that Joomla and Drupal were purpose-built to be community platforms. So there is a lot of breadth and depth there that doesn’t exist in Surf. That’s not a knock on Surf–it’s just that Surf was not intended to be as broad as something like Drupal.

Really, you should think of Surf as a framework for developing Alfresco- or, potentially, CMIS-centric applications. It isn’t an end-user tool by any stretch of the imagination.

Jeff

]]> By: Bernie http://ecmarchitect.com/archives/2009/12/16/1076/comment-page-1#comment-46225 Bernie Fri, 25 Dec 2009 13:53:36 +0000 http://ecmarchitect.com/?p=1076#comment-46225 Hi, Thanks for supplying the great post (and others, and the dev book of course). How do you see Spring Surf stacking up against the likes of Joomla and Drupal? The latter two give the end user (Out Of Box) considerable control of configuration and content update. Share (on Surf) does give some level of control, but not as much (OOB) perhaps as these PHP based frameworks? How would you compare theses options as Alfresco backed front ends? Hi,
Thanks for supplying the great post (and others, and the dev book of course).
How do you see Spring Surf stacking up against the likes of Joomla and Drupal? The latter two give the end user (Out Of Box) considerable control of configuration and content update. Share (on Surf) does give some level of control, but not as much (OOB) perhaps as these PHP based frameworks? How would you compare theses options as Alfresco backed front ends?

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