ACS Core Architecture Guide

1. ACS Package Manager (APM)
2. Request Processor
3. Bootstrapping ACS
4. Parties (Users and Groups) [ACS4]
5. General Permissions [ACS4]: the design needs to be extended to address how default permissions are created
6. Subcommunities [ACS4]
7. Security and Sessions
   • Preventing SQL-Smuggling attacks
8. API Publication
   • Tcl Procedures: ad_proc and ad_library
   • URLs: ad_page_contract
   • Database Views and Stored Procedures/Functions
9. Database Access API
10. Content Repository [ACS4]
11. Content Management and Personalization [ACS4]

• Writing an ACS Module
• user registration
• user administration: how the publisher can select a class of users and what can then be done with that class
• user profiling and content categorization: matching users to content
• user groups: a general mechanism for lumping users together in groups, e.g., all students in a particular course
• user session tracking
• Permissions Package: to be integrated with General Permissions
• content sections
• Site-wide Search: a system for indexing all of a site's content in one big table