A good friend of mine, Kris Vanderwater, is speaking about integrating Drupal and OpenLaszlo at Drupalcon next week. Unfortunately, the conference is sold out, but if you’re lucky enough to have a pass already, stop by and check out his talk. Kris works for Meridian Data Systems, in Oklahoma City.
Drupal is a popular PHP-based content management system, that’s normally used to create HTML web sites. It’s relatively easy to configure Drupal to output content in XML instead, to provide services for RIAs. Laszlo’s corporate hompage is an example of this. laszlosystems.com is a Drupal-powered site, but the home page is mostly an OpenLaszlo application. Content that changes frequently, such as the Laszlo in Action, News, Events, Training, and Careers tabs, are driven by XML services that are administered, along with the rest of the website, through Drupal.