Magnolia 1.1 - A content management system.

[Gordon Darling]

Magnolia 1.1 - A content management system.

About:
Magnolia is a content management system (CMS) which adheres to the
upcoming standard of Java content repositories. Its main goal is ease of
use for all parties involved in running a CMS. It has an easy to use Web
browser interface, it features a very flexible structure,
platform-independence through the use of Java and XML, a simple to use
API, easy templating through the use of JSP, JSTL and a custom tag
library, automatic administrative UI generation, transparent and uniform
data access to multiple data repositories, easy configuration through
XML, easy application integration, and easy deployment with professional
staging on any J2EE Server.

Changes:
This release adds new sample templates, major bugfixes, and changes to the
core.

Release focus: Major bugfixes
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) Project URL:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/magnolia/ Homepage: http://www.magnolia.info
Tar/GZ: http://freshmeat.net/redir/magnolia/45700/url_tgz/showfiles.php
Tar/BZ2: http://freshmeat.net/redir/magnolia/45700/url_bz2/showfiles.php
Zip: http://freshmeat.net/redir/magnolia/45700/url_zip/showfiles.php OS X
package:
http://freshmeat.net/redir/magnolia/45700/url_osx/showfiles.php

http://www.obinary.com/en/magnolia.html "Magnolia is the free, open
source, J2EE deployable content management system (CMS) developed by
obinary. Magnolia is written in Java and uses the upcoming standard API
for Java-based content repositories (JCR) to access its content. It has an
easy to use web-browser interface, a clear API and a useful custom tag
library for easy templating in JSP and Servlets.

Key benefits
The key benefit of Magnolia is that implementation, custom development and
maintenance will be unprecedented in simplicity and speed.

Magnolia thus uniquely combines the lowest total cost of ownership in the
market today with the highest flexibility possible.

Magnolia in a nutshell
Magnolia is the first open-source content-management-system (CMS) which
adheres to the upcoming standard of Java content repositories (JCR).

Its main goal is ease of use for all parties involved in running a CMS. It
features a very flexible structure, platform-independence through the use
of Java and XML, a simple to use API, easy templating through the use of
JSP, JSTL and a custom tag library, automatic administrative UI
generation, transparent and uniform data access to multiple data
repositories, easy configuration through XML, easy application integration
and easy deployment with professional staging on any J2EE Server.

Magnolia is actively been developed by obinary ltd. and is available free
of charge as an open source product. We provide a binary download based on
tomcat for easy deployment on Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, Solaris."

Regards
Gordon

 

[Bill Day]

Magnolia 1.1 - A content management system.

it is amazing to read all that, then go to the website and STILL see no
simple English sentence which tells one just exactly what a "content
management system" is supposed to do! At first glance, it 'looks' like
an online WYSIWYG web page editor, but that is not really clear..

I realize that a certain amount of jargon is necessary to communicate in
some areas, but it would be useful if something were said about such
products that could at LEAST tell the educated amateur that he doesn't
need it until he is further along.

I suppose the operative explanation would be "if you don't get it, you
don't need it." *grin*

 

[burnr]

STILL see no
simple English sentence which tells one just exactly what a "content
management system" is supposed to do! At first glance, it 'looks' like
an online WYSIWYG web page editor, but that is not really clear..

Hi Bill,
A cms is a web site type. The web site itself is the cms. The scripts that
make up the web site are written to allow content to be added by the owner
and users through web browsers. PHP is a popular cms file type.

To play around with cms installs, check out this site. It has several of
the most popular cms installed and allows visitors to see first hand what
the system looks like and how they are administered.
http://www.opensourcecms.com/

 

[Bill Day]

Hi Bill,
A cms is a web site type. The web site itself is the cms. The scripts that
make up the web site are written to allow content to be added by the owner
and users through web browsers. PHP is a popular cms file type.

To play around with cms installs, check out this site. It has several of
the most popular cms installed and allows visitors to see first hand what
the system looks like and how they are administered.
http://www.opensourcecms.com/

thanks! I'll go read some more...(still wondering why a small
explanation like that is not included more often....)

 

[Antoine]

thanks! I'll go read some more...(still wondering why a small
explanation like that is not included more often....)

I understand your concern but this term is quite well-know among webmasters, like some others :
cgi, css, js, php, ...

 

[Antoine]

thanks! I'll go read some more...(still wondering why a small
explanation like that is not included more often....)

I understand your concern but this term is quite well-known among
webmasters, like some others : cgi, css, js, php, ...

 

[Antoine]

thanks! I'll go read some more...(still wondering why a small
explanation like that is not included more often....)

I understand your concern but this term is quite well-known among
webmasters, like some others : cgi, css, js, php, ...

 

[John Hood]

I understand your concern but this term is quite well-know among webmasters, like some others :
cgi, css, js, php, ...

....And not only wed folks. We're looking for an internal only CMS
package for our business.

John Hood E-mail: (e-mail address removed) Website: John's Best of Freeware:
http://home.wi.rr.com/johnhood/freeware/

 

[Richard Steven Hack]

To play around with cms installs, check out this site. It has several of
the most popular cms installed and allows visitors to see first hand what
the system looks like and how they are administered.
http://www.opensourcecms.com/

Great link. Thanks.