[Openinteract-help] OpenInteract as CMS

[Heiko K. <Hei...@gm...>]

Hi,

I'm new to openinteract and just ran the tutorial of OI2. OI2 seems to 
be a very nice perl application server and I would like to continue with 
it. My main application running on OI2 should be a CMS system, with some 
applications added later.

Does there exist a CMS framework on top of OI2? (Similar to plone for 
Zope, OpenCMS for J2EE, ...) OI2 has its 'pages'-example, but I wouldn't 
call those a full CMS, since they are more or less just a different way 
of accessing the file-system. I would like to have:

1) access-restrictions of pages/directories (with users only seeing the 
places they are allowed to write to)
2) setting of expiration dates (with notification when page expires)
3) web-based page editor GUI
4) versioning system for all pages (pagewise)
5) batch uploading of files (i.e. graphics, older pages...)

1) and 2) seem to be partly included. 3) could be as simple as a 
javascript-tool, i.e. 
http://www.interactivetools.com/products/htmlarea/license.html
4) shouldn't be to much work. 5) could be solved by uploading zip files, 
which get unpacked. But I would prefer a API to OI2 (i.e. SOAP) to be 
able to script OI2 from a remote machine.

I would like to hear if this will be possible for me (decent perl 
programmer without experience in OI but some experience in 
web-applications/databases) to create with OI2 within the next 3-6month, 
or if I should use a specialized CMS i.e. Bricolage for the static 
pages, and OI2 for the dynamic applications (news/blogs/fora/etc.)

Best regards,

Heiko