dotCMS – content management system

Last Updated on October 28, 2024

dotCMS is a Java Open Source Web Content Management System for building/managing websites, content and content driven web applications.

While dotCMS includes the features you might expect in a complete CMS, including true separation of content and design, ease of editing, page caching, advanced templating, this software also includes many features you might not expect such as a Web2.0 calendar and events management, e-communications tools and more.

dotCMS is fully supported and has been deployed by thousands of companies, news organizations, Web 2.0 sites, universities, associations and foundations.

dotCMS also provides at cost a full suite of training and certification courses for all dotCMS developers, architects and general users.

Features include:

• Integrated WYSIWYG editor.
• Built in Editing/Staging/Publishing allows for content editing and previewing before approving and publishing.
• Task based workflow emails on change requests, content edits, approvals and publishing.
• Content versioning and rollback.
• Widgets allow end users to easily create rich web pages:
  • AJAX Photo Galleries.
  • RSS Feeds.
  • Streaming MP3 Player.
  • Social Networking.
  • Video Player / Galleries.
  • Google Maps Integration.
  • Online Form Creator / Handler.
• AJAX Calendar:
  • iCal Compatible.
  • Multiple Calendars.
  • Event Approval Process.
• News Center.
• RSS Feeds.
• User Login and Account Creation.
• Blogs.
• Web Store / Ecommerce.
• Simple templates and content layouts places no limits on design or what a template should look or act like.
• Content as XML, RSS, XHTML, PDF, email or standards-compliant html.
• WebDAV access to the file store.
• Permission the ownership, creation, editing and publishing of web content, pages, assets.
• Dynamic Navigation: menus, sub-menus, site maps and crumb trails.
• Easily create and use custom content types.
• Mark sections or content public or private.
• Advanced Macros:
  • Custom Content Displays.
  • SQL queries.
  • Use any js lib including JQuery, EXT, Dojo or Scriptaculas.
• Supports Oracle, MSSQL, MySQL and PostgreSQL).
• Virtual Hosting – Host and manage multiple sites from a single CMS instance.
• Clustering Support with Distributed Object Caching.
• Built in search engine for site and content.
• Multi-Lingual i18n Engine both for variables and for site content.
• JSR-168 compliant with servlet support.
• LDAP / Active Directory authentication connectors included.
• CAS single sign on integration.
• .war deployment on JBoss.
• Makes use of a number of different standards based open source projects including:
  • Apache Tomcat 6 – Industry Standard JSP/Servlet Container.
• • 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.

Website: dotcms.com
Support: Blog
Developer: dotCMS Development Group
License: GNU GPL v2

dotCMS is written in Java. Learn Java with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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