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August 6th, 2008 at 1:55 am
Hola
Una peque�a noticia para decirles que la nueva versi�n de nuestro CMS java opensource Magnolia 3.6 esta ya disponible,�quiz�s�quieran poner esta noticia en vuestra pagina.
Entre las novedades que aporta esta versi�n su pueden notar los realces del funcionamiento los cuales se han centrado en la mejora del sistema para los usuarios finales.Lla nueva versi�n de magnolia 3.6 es hasta diez veces de m�s r�pidas al importar y activar contenido, al formatear y crear nuevo p�rrafos as� como para crear las revisiones de cada pagina y m�s.
El nuevo sistema de cache ofrece un control incre�blemente refinado, granular de la puesta en cache y de limpieza de este mismo (flushing). Esto permite a los administradores crear soluciones de cache modificadas para requisitos particulares, as� como optimizar estrat�gicamente el cache para responder a la alta carga en los sitios Web y para asegurar una gran disponibilidad de cada elemento de contenido.
Magnolia 3.6 tambi�n ofrece un mecanismo actualizado de validaci�n que asegura la continuidad del contenido grandes implementaciones en multi-sitios. La funcionalidad transaccional de la activaci�n garantiza una transferencia acertada de los contenidos o de los cambios hechos en un servidor Magnolia (generalmente un servidor de pre-edici�n o un servidor de edici�n) y despu�s publicados a los sitios p�blicos m�ltiples de Magnolia (servidores subscriptores). Esto se asegura de que los contenidos y los cambios creados en el servidor de edici�n se repercutan en todos los servidores Magnolia remotos. Alternativamente, si hay un problema t�cnico en la publicaci�n a uno de los suscriptores, el contenido no es publicado por ningún suscriptor hasta que se haya resuelto la edici�n. Esto resuelve el problema com�n a muchas disposiciones CMS encargadas de sitios m�ltiples, donde los errores t�cnicos o de red durante el proceso de publicaci�n pueden, hacer que algunos sitios suscriptores se desincronisen, y no exhiban un contenido que tendr�a que ser id�ntico en cada sitio.
El backup tambi�n se ha refinado en esta �ltima versi�n de Magnolia, permitiendo a los administradores la restauraci�n de varias versiones anteriores de un contenido que ha sido editado. Esta nueva caracter�stica de backup ofrece una herramienta particularmente interesante para los usuarios corporativos que necesitan migrar sitios a partir de una instancia Magnolia a otra.
Como dije antes en un recapitulativo, magnolia es uno de los �nicos CMS opensource en soportar JSR170.
Para mas informaci�n sobre JSR170 pueden seguir este enlace:
http://www.cmswatch.com/Feature/123
Entre otras caracteristicas cuenta con:
- modulo de foro
- modulo de encuesta
- modulo de packaging
- Interface AJAX
- Backup autom�tico de meta-data (como nombre del autor y fecha)
- Multi lenguaje- administraci�n en 15 lenguas; contenido en cualquier lengua..
- B�squeda en el repositorio por contenido o por palabras claves
- Gesti�n de versi�n
- Workflow, el cual puede ser modificado para amoldarse a procesos complejos de publicaci�n.
- Publicaci�n diferida, toda publicaci�n puede ser autom�ticamente programada a una fecha posterior.
- Creaci�n de flujos RSS
- PodCasting
- Url virtualmente est�ticos (a toda pagina se le puede dar un url de tipo est�tico de manera a ser f�cilmente accesible a los motores de b�squedas e indexados)
Virtual Static Web Addresses
- integraci�n con portales de contenido via JSR-168
- Conector hacia CRM
- Autentificaci�n con Single Sign On, JAAS y LDAP (*)
- Conector CRX
- Modulo de despliegue
- clustering y load-balancing
- Cache, Magnolia puede poner en cache toda pagina de manera a aumentar la rapidez del acceso a ellas, el cache se pone al d�a autom�ticamente seg�n las paginas sean modificadas.
- Logging utilizando Apache Log4j
Magnolia uses standard Log4j logging. Its extensive customization options allow you to focus logs on your particular needs.
- Backup posible a trav�s de varios medios, ya sea directamente por el repositorio o a trav�s de de un mecanismo de export/import que puede ser planificado. De la misma manera hay un modulo de packaging que permite hacer un backup de los templates, clases java , etc..
- Gestion de roles, de manera a asignar a un usuario uno o mas roles a travez de grupos bien definidos.El contenido puede ser solo visto, le�do y cambiado por aquellas personas que han sido asignadas a ello.
- Posibilidad de crear los templates de manera din�mica con el sitedesigner, sin tener que saber nada de html o jsp.
Tienen tambi�n la versi�n enterprise edition, que no es gratis pero aporta muchas funcionalidades y ademas el soporte, muchas empresas no utilizan opensource justamente porque no hay ning�n soporte detr�s de los productos
Pueden ver el roadmap aca:
http://wiki.magnolia.info/display/DEV/Roadmap
La versi�n enterprise edition puede descargarse ac�:
http://registration.magnolia.info/
La versi�n community puede descargarse ac�:
�http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=86297&package_id=89560&release_id=616472
Las notas correspondientes a la version:
�http://documentation.magnolia.info/releases/3-6-1.html
Sito generado por maven:
�http://dev.magnolia.info/ref/3.6.1/
August 6th, 2008 at 6:57 am
Thanks for your detailed review of Magnolia.