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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 Indiges · · Score: 2, Interesting

    A Java CMS would probably not use Java as in Java Applets, but just Java as server-side environment (you might've come across sites with pages having a *.jsp extension, whell, those are probably Java and you didn't even notice ;-)). Java is very well suited for server-side programming, and the percieved 'slowness' of Java is (in my opinion) more due to the GUI-libraries in java (AWT, Swing) than the language itself.

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  2. Re:Poor Java Support with Webhosts by Shados · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I doubt thats the issue, since there are quite a bunch of .NET CMS solutions, which have the same issue (free providers never support it, you need to shell out, like for J2EE)

  3. Magnolia by paugq · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Magnolia is a really nice and powerful CMS in Java, with a BSD license. I have been involved in several serious projects (>300 hits/second) using Magnolia and it has always performed very well. Of course, we tuned the JVM, Tomcat, the Linux kernel and almost everything you could ever imagine.

    After evaluation, if you decide Magnolia is the CMS you are going to use, I advise to take the official training. It's worth the price.

  4. Re:That's an easy one by imroy · · Score: 3, Interesting
    PHP was tailor-made for this sort of thing

    No, it wasn't. PHP was made for writing quick little bits of code in Personal Home Pages. And for that it was perfectly reasonable. Unfortunately it became very popular (probably because it was easy to install on Windows) and since then it has been extended and had all sorts of modules added with little or no change to the core language. Many people are now discovering just how bad it is to use PHP on large projects. It's just a mess.