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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 chris_mahan · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'm pretty sure he's talking about java on the server, delivering (x)html+css+javascript to browsers.

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    "Piter, too, is dead."

  2. Re:That's an easy one by imroy · · Score: 4, Informative
    the article you link to is from 2002, pre dating many things in PHP

    Ok, I know I'm being trolled by a self-styled fanboy, but what things exactly?

    • Does PHP now have namespaces avoiding all the nonsense with naming variables and functions?
    • Has PHP been separated into a programming language and a templating language? Embedding code in HTML is so 90's. The MVC pattern is much more manageable, especially for a group of developers.
    • Has PHP done away with the configuration file, a major source of headaches in deploying applications on shared hosting?
    • Has PHP done away with "magic quotes"? Prepared statements. That's all I'm going to say.
    • Does PHP now handle Unicode (UTF-8) text transparently in all its built-in functions? You know, like Perl 5.8, coincidentally released in 2002.

    No it has not. PHP is still fundamentally the same language it was all the way back in 2002.

    And if you're going to argue about versions of PHP, might I also point out that PHP has broken forward compatibility twice . Version 4.4 changed the behaviour of references in an incompatible way, and PHP 5.0 makes many more changes to the core language. This places shared hosting providers in a very difficult position and many simply choose to run the old version 4.3, for which most PHP code was written for.