[Zope-CMF] Re: Understanding Tool Construction

[Gerry Kirk]

Hi,

Funny I should stumble across this post while looking for something 
else. Part of our application we are currently building will include a 
newspaper.

Is any of your stuff available for public consumption?

Regards,
Gerry

Tres Seaver wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 06:01, Chris Withers wrote:
> 
>>Tres Seaver wrote:
>>
>>>Chris, your imagination is too limited here:  the existing tools cover
>>>only a small slice of possible services / utilities.  On my current
>>>project, we have added several *dozen* tools, of different flavors. 
>>
>>Oh, cool. Can you give us soem examples?
> 
> 
> This application is for publishing a major newspaper and related content
> feeds.  None of these tools are included in the CMF, although some might
> eventually land there (some are already available on cvs.zope.org,
> though not supported):
> 
>  - Action icons tool (defines icon, title, etc. for actions baseed on
>    category and action ID)
> 
>  - Ad policies tool (defines ad positions, setup tags, etc.)
> 
>  - Page assembly tool (builds pages from approved content assets)
> 
>  - Asset repository (holds content assets)
> 
>  - Asset types tool (defines sub-page-level views for assets)
> 
>  - Composites tool (manages drag-and-drop page layout actions)
> 
>  - Events tools
> 
>  - Feeds tool (holds multi-step feed definitions)
> 
>  - Scheduler tools (dispatches scheduled tasks)
> 
>  - File-based items tool (defines where on filesysetm and in URL-space
>    binary bits for file-based assets and resources live)
> 
>  - Invalidation tool (propagates page update events out to a
>    helper process, which can then purge / reload pages from the Squid
>    caching tiers)
> 
>  - Listeners tool (maps events onto user-definable handlers)
> 
>  - Lock tool (UI-helper for querying / setting DAV locks)
> 
>  - Logger tool (allow PythonScripts to srite to the event log easily)
> 
>  - Messages tool (message drop for users / groups)
> 
>  - Navigation tool (generates dynamic nav fragments, based on folder
>    properties)
> 
>  - Page locator tool (maps asset metadata to page locations)
> 
>  - Relationships tool (manages dependency information between pages
>    and assets)
> 
>  - Schemas tool (defines content asset schemas by portal_type)
> 
>  - Sitemap tool (emits XML for consumption by Flash)
> 
>  - Site search tool (aggregates various catalog searches with external
>    search plugins)
> 
>  - Tease-generation tool (defines policies for generating "tease list"
>    assets)
> 
> The point is that many applications go beyond the model defined by
> CMFCore's interfaces.  Tools capture the "interstitial" bits of the
> application, where important functions are not directly bound to a
> particular piece of content.
> 
> Tres.