Thanks Ries. Here's what I've found so far.
I tried Alfresco community edition, even though it is too large for what I want. It has quality issues that would also disqualify it. The install fails at one point, but completes "successfully". After starting it I tried to login but it wouldn't recognize its default login. I restarted it manually using startup.bat so I could see the output and it was throwing exceptions because it couldn't find it's MySql database, which it installed. I don't want to deal with a CMS that can't even install correctly. Hippo looks very promising, but the reality is something else. Their downloads are confusing and incoherent. The Hippo Suite consists of 4 components: Repository, CMS, SiteToolkit and JetSpeed Portal. They say they support linux but I couldn't find a linux download. I downloaded the Windows installer (130 MB) and it installed a Tomcat 7 service and a directory structure containing Hippo components. When I go to http://localhost:8080/cms all I see is a blank page. Hippo's docs are just a series of web pages with ad-hoc instructions. Hippo is in serious need of some release management and documentation. I installed dotCMS and it wouldn't start. All I got was a DOS window with some messages that weren't helpful in diagnosing the problem. It's also poorly documented. I'm currently looking at Liferay. It's blogging capabilities don't look as good as Roller and it's much heavier than I need for a personal / family web site. But it does work. I'll take a look at Jahia. --- On Fri, 1/28/11, Ries van Twisk <[email protected]> wrote: From: Ries van Twisk <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Which web CMS to use with Alfresco? To: [email protected] Date: Friday, January 28, 2011, 2:59 PM Dean, I am currently evaluating 3 CMS systems for a company in the US, the choices where - OneHippo - Magnolia - Jahia >From the above 3 I am really liking Jahia 3.5Beta which pretty much rocks the bottoms out of any PHP based CMS (even TYPO3) and is quite feature rich AND easy for a java based CMS, no JCR node editing and stuff, point and click based templating. Support for portlets, multi-language, multi-site and some very nice other features. Here is the link : http://beta65.jahia.org/ The good thing, it's GPLv2 for teh community edition. Ries On Jan 28, 2011, at 4:36 PM, Dean Schulze wrote: > > I'm creating a web site that will have a blog and other content. This will > be my personal web site and I anticipate adding a family area with a calendar > and some document sharing as well. Roller looks like a good choice for the > blog, but it doesn't look like a full web CMS. What I want sounds like an > Alfresco personal version, but that doesn't exist. > > Any suggestions for which web CMS (Java based) to use along with Roller for a > small but full featured web site? > > Thanks. > >
