Packt Publishing, the publisher of computer related books, announced the release of its new book OpenCMS 7 Development.

OpenCms is a professional-level open-source Website Content Management System, based on Java and XML. Many companies or organizations have requirements that go beyond what is available in the standard OpenCms application. Thankfully, OpenCms can be used by Java developers to create sophisticated add-ons and customizations that extend the power of OpenCms in virtually unlimited directions.

Targeting version 7 of OpenCms, this book is for Java developers interested in extending and further customizing OpenCms through its Java API.

A new version of dotCMS, an open-source J2EE enterprise class web content management system, was released this week. dotCMS 1.5 incorporates web content management with CRM, eCommunication tools and ecommerce.

New features introduced in dotCMS 1.5 include:

• Content "Triggers" using JBoss Rules to allow rule based user segmentation by usage.
• Business Intelligence Reports - Integrated with Jasper Reports and iReports allow detailed and customized reporting on site usage, transactions and content activity.
• Improvements to User Search Segmentation, Permissions and Management.
• Revamped Campaign/Communication Manager.

"IBM signed on Monday an agreement to resell Mainsoft Corp.'s new .Net Extensions for WebSphere Portal product that will allow companies to use .Net to create Java applications for IBM's WebSphere portal.

IBM expects that the tools will help its customers integrate
Windows SharePoint Services, Office document libraries, SQL Server
Reports and .Net applications into IBM's WebSphere Portal Server without the need for Java developers, the two companies said."

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Coach Wei, Java developer, asks the following question on his blog.

Here is a question that I have been pondering on and off for quite a while: Why do "cool kids" choose Ruby or PHP to build websites instead of Java?

At work we're actually moving many of our in-house desktop applications from Python to Java. I wouldn't be too surprised to see us migrate more PHP Web applications over to Java too for some of the reasons Wei gives in his blog post. But I have a theory as to why PHP and Ruby could be considered "cool" and it has less to do with Java's features and more to do with the culture of open source.

"Web 2.0 applications developed using standard Java™ Platform,
Enterprise Edition 5 (Java EE)-based approaches face serious
performance and scalability problems. The reason is that many
principles that underlie the Java EE platform's design — especially,
the use of synchronous APIs — don't apply to the requirements of Web
2.0 solutions. This article explains the disparity between the Java EE
and Web 2.0 approaches, explores the benefits of asynchronous designs,
and evaluates some solutions for developing asynchronous Web
applications with the Java platform."

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• Content "Triggers" using JBoss Rules to allow rule based user segmentation by usage.
• Business Intelligence Reports - Integrated with Jasper Reports and iReports allow detailed and customized reporting on site usage, transactions and content activity.
• Improvements to User Search Segmentation, Permissions and Management.
• Revamped Campaign/Communication Manager.
• Web based communications can delivered to a segment of site visitors as a campaign.
• Updated User Interface.
• Taxonomy (Tagging) Improvements
• Quartz based job scheduler.

"Sun Microsystems has announced the availability of Java Platform Standard Edition 6 (Java SE 6).

This new version of Sun's Java platform is "an exciting release for us because it's our first community release," said Jean Elliott, director of Developer Marketing at Sun."

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