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Open Source CMS Solutions Based on Java?

Posted by Cliff on from the coffee-blogs dept.

namityadav asks: "I've been looking for an open source Content Management System (CMS) which is widely used / supported, and has features like web-logging, online communities, RSS feeds, forums, polls, calendars, website searching, and so on. The most obvious choices are Drupal (I've played with it in the past) and Joomla, however both of them are PHP based. Since I am a Java developer, I wanted to find something based on Java. To my surprise, I could find some very weak Java based alternatives to Drupal, like MMBase, OpenCMS and Magnolia. Why is it that there are so many PHP based open source CMS which are hugely successful (Drupal is used by The Onion, Spread Firefox, and more), but there is not even one comparable solution based on Java?"

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  1. Re:Maybe because people turn it off? by nacturation · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't know about most people, but I always turn off Java in my browser. Well it's a good thing you leave PHP turned on in your browser.
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  2. Dear slashdot, by Klowner · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm a construction worker and the other day I was thinking about baking a cake. As it turns out, I'm having a heck of a time finding a cake-batter mixing machine that runs on diesel.

  3. Re:Maybe because people turn it off? by booch · · Score: 2, Funny

    I can't believe you have a UID that low and still don't know the difference between applets and server side Java.

    I can't believe that you consider 97000 a low UID.

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  4. Re:Maybe because people turn it off? by imroy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Neither can I.