dotCMS
dotCMS is a Java
Open
Source Web Content Management System for building/managing websites,
content and content driven web applications.
While dotCMS includes the features you might expect in a
complete CMS, including true separation of content and design, ease of
editing, page
caching, advanced templating, this software also includes many features
you might not expect such as a
Web2.0 calendar and events management, e-communications tools and more.
dotCMS is fully supported and
has been deployed by thousands of companies, news organizations, Web
2.0 sites, universities, associations and foundations.
dotCMS also provides at cost a full suite of training
and certification courses for all dotCMS developers, architects and
general users.
Features include:
- Integrated WYSIWYG editor
- Built in Editing/Staging/Publishing allows for content
editing and previewing before approving and publishing
- Task based workflow emails on change requests, content
edits, approvals and publishing
- Content versioning and rollback
- Widgets allow end users to easily create rich web pages:
- AJAX Photo Galleries
- RSS Feeds
- Streaming MP3 Player
- Social Networking
- Video Player / Galleries
- Google Maps Integration
- Online Form Creator / Handler
- AJAX Calendar
- iCal Compatible
- Multiple Calendars
- Event Approval Process
- News Center
- RSS Feeds
- User Login and Account Creation
- Blogs
- Web Store / Ecommerce
- Simple templates and content layouts places no limits on
design or what a template should look or act like.
- Content as XML, RSS, XHTML, PDF, email or
standards-compliant html
- WebDAV access to the file store
- Permission the ownership, creation, editing and publishing
of web content, pages, assets
- Dynamic Navigation: menus, sub-menus, site maps and crumb
trails
- Easily create and use custom content types
- Mark sections or content public or private
- Advanced Macros:
- Custom Content Displays
- SQL queries
- Use any js lib including JQuery, EXT, Dojo or Scriptaculas
- Supports Oracle, MSSQL, MySQL
and PostgreSQL).
- Virtual Hosting - Host and manage multiple sites from a
single CMS instance
- Clustering Support with Distributed Object Caching
- Built in search engine for site and content
- Multi-Lingual i18n Engine both for variables and for site
content
- JSR-168 compliant with servlet support
- LDAP / Active Directory authentication connectors included
- CAS single sign on integration
- .war deployment on JBoss
- Makes use of a number of different standards based open
source projects including:
- Apache Tomcat 6 - Industry Standard JSP/Servlet Container
- Apache Struts - Web Application Framework
- DWR - Java
AJAX framework
- Spring - the Spring Application Framework
- Hibernate ORM - Object Relation Mapping Engine
- Velocity Templating Language - Lightweight templating
engine
- Velocity Tools Project - Expose tools and widgets to
velocity templates
- Lucene Search Engine - Mature and robust java search
engine
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