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Open Source CMS Solutions Based on Java?
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?"
I don't know about most people, but I always turn off Java in my browser. It increases startup times, has security problems (or so I have heard when people actually used Java, back in the last century), and there really aren't any sites that have useful applets. For all the hype surrounding it, I have still to see any functional Java-based application, in the browser or otherwise. Of course, you are a Java developer, so this will not apply to you. But consider that most CMSs are designed for regular people, who would probably rather use a regular HTML-based interface that works in any browser, including lynx, which even I still use on occasion.