Professional SharePoint® 2007 Development

13.1. WCM in Office SharePoint Server 2007

13.1.1. WCM in Office SharePoint Server 2007

The MOSS web content management components are implemented as part of the Microsoft SharePoint publishing framework, which is implemented as a set of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 features. In other words, the publishing framework is implemented in the same way as any other "feature," which is really a testament to the breadth and effectiveness of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 architecture. The following table describes the major components of the Office SharePoint Server 2007 publishing framework:

Features Folder	Description
12\TEMPLATES\FEATURES\Publishing	Provides the core publishing framework that enables publishing in a web. Adds custom actions to the user interface for managing item scheduling from a document library, and for setting up content type conversions.
12\TEMPLATES\FEATURES\PublishingLayouts	Defines the default layouts that are available for publishing pages.
12\TEMPLATES\FEATURES\PublishingPrerequisites	Installs a custom event receiver to handle publishing feature activation and deactivation for a site collection.
12\TEMPLATES\FEATURES\PublishingResources	Installs Web Parts, images, stylesheets and other resources that are used by various components of the publishing framework.
12\TEMPLATES\FEATURES\PublishingSite	Sets up feature activation dependencies for a publishing site to ensure that the necessary components are in place for a given publishing site.
12\TEMPLATES\FEATURES\PublishingStapling ...