[Typo3-dev] Event System in the core / Ease the integration of 3rd party apps

[Leendert Brouwer [Netcreators]]

Hi,

> Interesting for me would be if there are any standards we can use and
which
> would suit our needs best. Or maybe it doesn't make sense using them at
all
> and better create a quick propriety solution. How is WEBDAV[2] related to
> that, should we implement a SOAP[3] interface? What about the Java 170[4]
> standard Björn Schotte is going to implement for PHP[5]? What other
> approaches exist? How did other projects solve this problem?

I don't really see how webdav is related to it. Webdav has more to do with
remote file access and versioning. LDAP does have to do with uniform user
management, or rather 'keeping it all in one place'. If every application
out there used LDAP directories or had LDAP hooks for user management, this
kind of stuff would be easier. SOAP is good. Or well, other XML protocols
are good too. Any programming language can virtually speak XML. XML-RPC is
good (replace 'event' with 'procedure' in this thread and you basically end
up with XML-RPC). You could 'soap out' part of the TYPO3 core I guess (like
user handling). But it would require some major modifications. It'd be much
easier to build webservices etc. then. If you ask me, content management
systems that directly spit out (x)html have no future. Not in a device
independent, personalized, unified environment. So eventually, everything
needs to speak with the CMS. And that implies the need for changes just
mentioned.