Jahia
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| Jahia | |
 Jahia online demo displaying in Mozilla Firefox |
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| Maintainer: | Jahia Ltd |
| Stable release: | 5.0.1 (December 22, 2006) [+/-] |
| Preview release: | 5.1 (April 1, 2007) [+/-] |
| OS: | Cross-platform |
| Use: | Content management system |
| License: | JSSL for the community edition, JCDDL for the commercial editions |
| Website: | www.jahia.org |
Jahia is web based tool to create the easily manageable website. After deploying, the new pages can be created and edited remotely, accessing the system with an ordinary web browser. Heavy involvement of the JavaScript provides the wysiwyg-style editors, including possibility to paste the clipboard content with images and text formatting from the ordinary word processor like OpenOffice. The web site layout is determined by the changeable templates. The compay provides enough free documentation to create the custom templates using JSP, giving numerous examples both for java and JSP tags. Custom templates still can reuse large part of Jahia engine which serves additional pages for editing and customising the content. The system is written in java and can run under Apache Tomcat. Jahia supports a variety of databases (HyperSonic SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle and others).
Jahia also offers its own "corporate portal templates" that contain all needed for the ready-to use CMS. These can be customised on a user friendly level or (if more control needed) by edititing CSS.
Jahia has the open source "community edition" and several commercial versions with additional features. The commercial version supports multilingual sites, precise control on the user rights, automated site mirroring and so on. Even commercial versions give access to the source code. However the open source license requires to keep the "copyright Jahia" statement on all served pages, making the use of this version legally difficult. From the other side, the company offers commercial Jahia distributions in exchange to donating some code for this project.
