GWT with a Content Management System

Question

After seeing some of the benefits of GWT, my partner and I decided that it would be a good front end for the web app we hope to build. A main part of this web app will be content management. We were hoping to use a CMS framework and put GWT on the front end, but all the open source CMS systems we find seem to be very tied to their front end.

Does anybody know of a CMS that would work well with GWT?

Answer 1

I think it all depends on how much integration you want, specifically, what you want to do with GWT. We have successfully integrated GWT with Documentum + Java on the back end.

With that said, our integration is fairly light. The site is largely a content oriented website, but we use GWT to:

1. Implement certain more dynamic widgets (e.g., text box with intelligent auto completion, font size changers).
2. Enhance content in the CMS to make it more animated (for instance, instead of displaying lots of content in a single screen, we use GWT's tab panel to display chunks at a time, while still allowing content authors to manage our content).
3. Implement "mini-apps" within the site.

Unfortunately, since this is something I do for a client, I cannot specifically mention the site by name in public, but if you're interested, I can share some details with you via e-mail.