dotCMS - Open Source Content Management System, Ondemand CMS, and Professional Support

Enterprise Open Source

dotCMS has been built using the category-leading technologies that guide J2EE development today. These technologies are all widely adopted, actively developed open-source projects, standards and patterns. Here are the projects and frameworks used:

• 100% J2EE Java - Vendor neutral means you can run it equally well on Windows or UNIX servers
• Apache Tomcat - Industry Standard JSP/Servlet Container
• Liferay Enterprise Portal - Open-source portal, which has since introduced its own CMS system.
• Apache Struts - Web Application Framework
• DWR - Java AJAX framework
• Spring - the Spring Application Framework
• Hibernate ORM - Object Relation Mapping Engine
• Velocity Templating Language - Lightweight templating engine
• Velocity Tools Project - Expose tools and widgets to velocity templates
• Lucene Search Engine - Mature and robust java search engine.

Development

The Velocity + Struts front end makes dotCMS easy to extend and build upon. In house, we use the amazing Eclipse IDE as our development platform.

 

Database Independent

Because dotCMS uses Hibernate to abstract all data access, the resulting code is extremely portable across databases. Databases that dotCMS currently supports include:  

• MySQL (5.0+)
• PostgreSQL (8.0+) 
• Oracle (9+)
• Microsoft SQL Server (2000+)

If you have specific customized needs, the platform could also be made to work with other relational databases such as SAP db, Informix or DB2. If you are interested in running dotCMS on another database that supports Hibernate and JDBC, please contact our professional services department for more information.