Index: openacs-4/packages/acs-core-docs/www/apm-design.html =================================================================== RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/openacs-4/packages/acs-core-docs/www/apm-design.html,v diff -u -r1.21 -r1.21.2.1 --- openacs-4/packages/acs-core-docs/www/apm-design.html 11 Nov 2003 12:54:56 -0000 1.21 +++ openacs-4/packages/acs-core-docs/www/apm-design.html 14 Nov 2003 09:43:44 -0000 1.21.2.1 @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ packages for other ACS users to download and install.

For a simple illustration of the difference between ACS without APM (pre-3.3) and ACS with APM (3.3 and beyond), consider a hypothetical ACS installation that uses only two of the thirty-odd modules available circa ACS -3.2 (say, bboard and e-commerce):

APM itself is part of a package, the OpenACS Kernel, an OpenACS +3.2 (say, bboard and e-commerce):

APM itself is part of a package, the OpenACS Kernel, an OpenACS service that is the only mandatory component of an OpenACS installation.

Competitive Analysis

The OpenACS is a platform for web-based application software, and any software platform has the potential to develop problems like those described above. Fortunately, there are many precedents for systematic solutions,