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Web Content Management – Architectural Approaches
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
I’m often asked what is the best way to go about building a WCM enabled application. I’ve learned over the past few years that there is actually a large number of options here. I’m not just talking about products, but rather architectural approaches.
I think the first question to ask is, ‘Do you need a WCM enabled application or do you simply need a content driven application?’. If you don’t need a ’site builder’, or the ability to have business users build out the site, then you can likely do with just a content driven application.
What I’m starting to see now as that instead of complete WCM enabled applications, we can get away with simple content driven applications. I came across a requirement the other day where the client merely wanted the ability to change text on a page without redeploying the application. Well, you don’t necessarily need an enterprise grade WCM application for that. You just need to pull the text from a repository. This is no different than pulling product information from a database. However, there are cases where a complete WCM enabled application is required.
Here are the options I typically consider.
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