RoadMap - dotCMS

What's in store for dotCMS?

The dotCMS developmental roadmap is governed by real needs of the dotCMS community and clients. We are actively soliciting insight into your needs and are looking for developmental partners who can bring ideas and feedback and support to help drive these initiatives. If you have specific requirements that you'd like to see addressed or would like to participate and benefit from these initiatives, please let us know.

Roadmap presentation form the 2008 Open Minds Conference

Features by Development Phase:

Feature	Phase	Description
Usability Improvements Developer: Dotmarketing	Completed	Continue the process of re-developing the toolsets using AJAX Re-write web tree to allow drag and drop ordering and "native" application feel. AJAX based front end content contribution tools. Minimize the use of popups and new windows. Redesign Portal based backend for maximum usability.
XML Importing/Exporting of CMS Installation Developer: Dotmarketing	Completed	XML based Importing and Exporting (Hot Backup) of all content, workflows, permissions, users and roles. Allows for real time back up and restoration of the complete CMS installation. Allows for database migrations (from MSSQL to MySQL, for example).
Conference Registration System Developer: Dotmarketing	Completed	Integrated with the ecommerce solution: Discount codes Customer / Pricing segmentation Multiple attendees in a single registration. Integrated Reporting
Incorporation of Rules Engine Developer: Dotmarketing	Completed	Dotmarketing will incorporate drools, the jboss rules engine that will allow the creation of a rich set of actions that could occur based on user, folder or structure events.
Incorporation of Scheduling Engine Developer: Dotmarketing	Completed	Integrate with Quartz, the enterprise class scheduling engine. This will allow system administrators to control the schedule of batch processing job and to create new custom scheduled jobs as needed.
Course Registration System with shopping cart and A/R functionality Developer: Dotmarketing	In Beta	Course registration engine complete with Student Accounts, eCommerce and A/R functionality with account aging. Based on the work done for Colorado State University, will be launching June '07 Contact us for a demo.
Alumni Portal Developer: Dotmarketing	In Beta	Login based community for Alumni and Clubs. Will include class notes, profile and contact maintainance, club and club events distributed by geographic region. Contact us for a demo.
WebDav File Access Developer: Dotmarketing	In Beta	WebDav will provide permission based webdav access to the dotCMS file tree. It will allow for batch importing of content and desktop drag and drop functionality from a Windows Folder on their desktops.
PDF and RTF Generation Developer: Dotmarketing	In Beta	Using FOP, automatic PDF and RTF generation for pixel perfect printing of content and MS Word Export.
eCommerce engine Developer: Dotmarketing	Development	Full featured eCommerce engine: Online Transaction Processing Shopping Cart Discount Codes Product taxonomy (allows for Amazon-like customization) Customer / Pricing segmentation Contact us for a demo.
Digital Asset Management (DAM) Solution Developer: Dotmarketing	Development	Integrate Enterprise level (clusterable) open source DAM engine with dotCMS's easy to use presentation logic, built in permissions and workflow engine. JSR 170 Compliance Dublin Core tagging and categorizing content. Lucene integrated content searching Leverage dotCMS for asset administration and presentation
Social Networking Video Player Developer: Dotmarketing	Development	Socially driven, YouTube like functionality with integrated content approval process, comments, content rating all driven by an enterprise/archival class Digital Asset Management System.
JSR-170 Integration/Compliance Developer: Dotmarketing	Development	dotCMS will integrate with Jackrabbit, Apache's open source implementation of JSR-170. Jackrabbit will provide all content services to the web engine and allow users the piece of mind that their content is in a standards based repository.

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What's in store for dotCMS?

Usability Improvements

XML Importing/Exporting of CMS Installation

Conference Registration System

Integrated with the ecommerce solution:

Incorporation of Rules Engine

Incorporation of Scheduling Engine

Course Registration System with shopping cart and A/R functionality

Alumni Portal

WebDav File Access

PDF and RTF Generation

eCommerce engine

Full featured eCommerce engine:

Digital Asset Management (DAM) Solution

Social Networking Video Player

JSR-170 Integration/Compliance

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