Comments on: Open Source CMS Comparison

By: open source cms

open source cms — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 09:36:41 +0000

Looks great But I like php

By: pal

pal — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:17:31 +0000

Hi everybody,

I got confused with the world of portals and cms.

Which java based portal/cms would be better for creating easy to customize and dynamic website?

Any experiences Please Share…

By: NP

NP — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 20:07:35 +0000

Has anybody looked at MMBase.. It’s a Netherlands based product – and has some cool core features. Completely OO and java based.

By: Boris

Boris — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 13:23:29 +0000

A small comment to memory requirements of Magnolia
Yes there was a time when Magnolia needed lots of memory for INITIAL startup (i.e. for the very first time you ever staarted Magnolia). This as used for populating the repositories by reading bootstrap files, something that makes it easy for us to be able to plug in other repositories or use different databases.

However, Magnolia has always been rather memory efficient to run. When you download Magnolia today, the initial bootstrap has been performed by us (that makes the download bigger but means you have no big memory requirements anymore).

In other words, we have had systems with 8 Million hits per hour on a standard PC server; and you can run Magnolia with 256MB in general (large sites might need more).

Of course its also a matter of which infrastructure you are using. Websphere? JBoss? Tomcat? Jetty? Resin? Weblogic?

Or do you want to use Liferay or JBoss portal with Magnolia? Thats also possible, and will need much more memory than Magnolia.

By: mikel

mikel — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 14:12:34 +0000

Did someone look at Hippo CMS?
http://www.hippocms.org

Or Daisy
http://cocoondev.org/daisy/index.html

They are also based on Apache Cocoon. The smae as Lenya, but do you know what’s the difference?

By: adriano

adriano — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 20:40:26 +0000

If you are looking for a CMS that allow to build your own
data structure mapped on database tables,
have a look at aplaws+.
http://www.aplaws.org.uk/home/index.php

By: Florent

Florent — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 07:41:32 +0000

And what about eXo Platform ?
http://forge.objectweb.org/projects/exoplatform/
Portal, CMS, DM, …

By: Samrat

Samrat — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 22:55:39 +0000

Thank you apoorv! I will look into the XMLContent feature.

I dint get much time in the last week to try out the CMSs. Next week, am planning to evaluate both openCMS and Magnolia at more deeper level to see which one can be easily customizable. Until now, i am a little inclined towards openCMS since there is a possibility to write our own modules, which AFAIK is not the case with Magnolia (please correct me if i am wrong!).

Will write my results here next weekend…

By: Apoorv

Apoorv — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 12:05:33 +0000

I’ve never had a chance to work with Magnolia and Infoglue but from what I hear, It takes too much memory just to get it up and running, unlike other Open Source products. However, if JSR-170 is your requirement than Magnolia could be a good choice. Infact there are quite a few people who like this product.
Alfresco recently released its version 1.0 finally. It is still evolving and I’m not sure if it is production ready yet. I could be wrong also though.

One interesting feature of OpenCMS 6.0 is the ability to create your own data types using XMLContent. Basically, you create a simple XML with details of fields in your datastructure and it does rest of the work. However, it stores content in its own VFS in XML format and I’m not sure if it is possible (or a good idea) to map this content to your custom table.

By: Samrat

Samrat — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 14:14:54 +0000

Hi Apoorv,

I was just wondering if you had evaluated Magnolia? In the last few days i have been comparing a few CMSs and finally narrowed down to Magnolia, openCMS, InfoGlue, Alfresco(in the order of importance). We just need a Web CMS and we would not need any document management features. However, another interesting requirement in our case is that we must have a facility to extend the CMS and define our own custom data-structures which could be mapped on to our custom tables.

Do you have any suggestions?

Have been following your updates on the various java-based open CMSs. Its helping a lot…keep up the good work!

-Samrat