What is JCR?

Content Repository API for Java (JCR) is a specification for a Java platform API for accessing content repositories in a uniform manner. The content repositories are used in content management systems to keep the content data and also the meta-data used in CMS such as versioning meta-data. The specification was developed under the Java Community [...]

Types of CMS

Module-based CMS

Most tasks in a document’s life-cycle are served by CMS modules. Common modules are document creation/editing, transforming and publishing.

Document transformation language-based CMS

Another approach to CMS building with use of open standards. XSLT-based CMS compile ready documents from XML data and XSLT-template. XML Sapiens-based CMS compile a document from the stream of ‘pure’ data, design [...]

CMS & WCMS

A content management system (CMS) is a computer software system used to assist its users in the process of content management. CMS facilitates the organization, control, and publication of a large body of documents and other content, such as images and multimedia resources. A CMS often facilitates the collaborative creation of documents. A web content [...]

History of WCMS !!!

Web Content Management Systems began to be formally developed as a commercial software product in 1995 by two startups, Sunnyvale, California-based Interwoven and it’s flagship TeamSite product and Austin, Texas-based Vignette’s Vignette Content Management product. As the internet began to grow, likewise, the importance of Web Content Management as a part of IT infrastructure began [...]

What is WCMS?

A Web content management system (WCMS or Web CMS) is content management system (CMS) software, usually implemented as a Web application, for creating and managing HTML content. It is used to manage and control a large, dynamic collection of Web material (HTML documents and their associated images). A WCMS facilitates content creation, content control, editing, [...]