RE: [Pbwebgui-development] The Thought For Today

[Frank D. <fld...@ms...>]

I love this idea.  Properly designed, WebGUI could not only be the BEST CMS 
available, but also the most powerful.  We could essentially make each 
wobject a link in an object tree allowing for some great flexibility.

A simple example.  Say you wanted to implement a directory search wobject, 
while at the same time giving administrators of the system rights to edit 
the users returned by the search.  Rather than re-writing the manageUser 
Operation, your Wobject could BE that operation, allowing you to add new 
methods and override others.

So: MyDirectorySearch @ISA(UserManagementOperation)
and UserManagementOpertaion @ISA(Wobject)

I also see good uses for multiple inheritance as well.  You could write a 
wobject that is an Aritcle, Uer Submission System, and MessageBoard.

Once again, great idea.  I look forward to seeing a plan for design.


>From: JT Smith <jt...@pl...>
>Reply-To: pbw...@li...
>To: <pbw...@li...>
>Subject: [Pbwebgui-development] The Thought For Today
>Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:35:54 -0600
>
>I've been giving a lot of thought to people saying that they want 
>operations to be pluggable. I think that might be a good idea, but I think 
>I'd like to go an enitrely new direction with it. Bear with me, and let it 
>roll around in your head a minute before writing a response, but I do want 
>to hear as many sides to this discussion as possible.
>
>What I'm proposing is that we merge the concept of wobject and operation 
>into one thing. The end result would be that all operations would become, 
>in effect, wobjects.
>
>One of the reasons for this is there have been a lot of requests for people 
>to be able to "customize" the administrative operations of WebGUI. They 
>want to create an "admin" area and rearange this and that. They want to set 
>different privilege levels for some of the admin functions, and they'd be 
>able to do that through page/wobject privileges if we did this. They also 
>want to create different administrative interfaces for different sets of 
>users. There could be a content managers admin area, and a sys admins admin 
>area for instance.
>
>Another reason is that some people want to plug in their own operations. 
>Operations, as you know, are not pluggable currently. They're not 
>namespaced either, which complicates pluggability.
>
>And the final reason I see for this is my own reason. I want EVERYTHING 
>that the user can see to be configurable. We've done a good job to this 
>point of templating things and making stuff pluggable. Now we have to go 
>the last mile and make operations pluggable. I see no reason why operations 
>must be global. They can be instance based just like wobjects.
>
>If we can make this transition, I think that WebGUI will be the most 
>confiurable web management system on the planet. Any piece of it will be 
>able to be replaced.
>
>So. Now that I've had my spiel. Please think about it, and then post your 
>rebuttle.
>
>
>JT ~ Plain Black
>
>Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.
>
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