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

[Robert Lemke]

Hi Leendert,

Leendert Brouwer [Netcreators] wrote:

> I don't really see how webdav is related to it. Webdav has more to do with
> remote file access and versioning. 

Wouldn't that be useful for TYPO3 as well?

> 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. 

I'm not sure about the current status of the LDAP extension, doesn't that
work?

> 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. 

Yes, there are many things things, we *could* do.

> 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.

So, what is the next step?

-- 
robert