[TYPO3-mvc] ExtCommon - an idea

[Jochen Rau]

Hi Masi.

schrieb Martin Kutschker:
> Tags, comments, categories are common. What do you think of creating an ExtCommon extension that
> provides base (abstract?) implementations of these concepts?
>
> Or maybe the extension could also provide concrete (but extendable) implementations for easy sharing
> between public extensions from TER.

I fully aggree. IMO that's the next important step to take.

Sebastian Kurfürst and I recently discussed this topic with Benni Mack 
(release Manager of TYPO3 4.5). I suggested to have a set of generic 
domain objects (GEMs) as a base future extensions can easily been build 
on. Some more ideas in short:

- A GEM should be based on good open standards (like OASIS CIQ for party 
related objects).
- They should come with their own default HTML-template (GEM+Template = 
FCE).
- They could be bound to a semantic model (so that a Person and its 
properties could be tagged with rdf tags in FE).
- They should be synced with v5.0 (or better be implemented there and 
backported).

Possible GEMs (just brainstorming):

Party
Person
- FrontendUser
Address
Location
DateRange
DateTime
Product
Currency
LengthUnit
VolumeUnit
UniqueNumber (with a customizable UniqueNumberService)
Country

and mapped Objects from tt_content

Feel free to add some more.

Regards
Jochen

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