Hippo CMS
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Hippo CMS is an opensource information centered Content Management System. The Hippo CMS project was initiated and is maintained by Hippo. It's targeted at medium to large organisations managing content for multi-channel distribution like web sites and intranets. It facilitates an open and flexible way of using your information by following international accepted open standards.
[edit] Open Source and open standards
Hippo CMS is user friendly, has an Technical Architecture and is designed for interoperability with existing environments. Hippo CMS is built to integrate external sources of content into one. Therefore, it uses all relevant open standards to allow this integration. For many existing sources, connectors are available in the codebase.
The open architecture of Hippo CMS has the following key points:
- Open source
- Works with open standards
- Reuse of content
- Separation of content, design, logic and the CMS system itself.
- User friendly user interface
- Native XML, 100 % JAVA
- No vendor lock-in
[edit] Open source projects
Hippo CMS is based on several proven open source projects, mainly from the [Apache Software foundation]:
- Cocoon (http://cocoon.apache.org)
- Slide (http://jakarta.apache.org/slide)
- Apache Webserver (http://httpd.apache.org)
- Ant (http://ant.apache.org/)
- Avalon (http://avalon.apache.org)
- Lucene (http://jakarta.apache.org/lucene)
- Maven (http://maven.apache.org/)
- Xerces (http://xml.apache.org/xerces2-j/index.html)
- Xalan (http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/index.html)
- FOP (http://xml.apache.org/fop/index.html)
- Batik (http://xml.apache.org/batik/index.html)
Hippo CMS is available under the [Apache 2.0 license].
