Spring CMS Integration

[derrickhackman]

I have the need to tie in a content management system into my Spring/Hibernate/Acegi application and am curious to know what open source CMS packages integrate well with Spring. My application will provide auto-generated content as well as give the user the ability to manage content they push to the CMS. I would like the CMS to fully integrate with my application and will need to manipulate the CMS 'skin' so I can incorporate my own navigation and event items.

I looked at JNuke but it appears to be a bit unstable. I have looked at Alfresco but it appears to be too full featured and perhaps difficult to integrate. I have also started to consider moving my application from Tomcat to JBoss for the JBoss portal functionality. Finally, I have also started looking at the Spring Modules Jackrabbit integration as a possible CMS solution.

What have folks done with respect to CMS solutions that integrate well with Spring? Ideally, I would not like to roll my own CMS solution and rather would want to integrate my Spring app with a well proven CMS solution.

Thoughts, comments.

Thank you in advance for your assistance.
-Derrick

[clandestino_bgd]

I can recommend AtLeap.
I have used it for very big project and was really happy.
It is based on appfuse, so, it has Spring, Hibernate, Acegi and all those nice stuff incorporated.

Regards
Milan

[derrickhackman]

Thank you for the suggestion. I was looking at Alfresco as a possibility and it appears their SDK is a real possibility.

Blandware AtLeap is nice solution.

[derrickhackman]

upon closer inspection ... AtLeap isn't going to cut it.

Any other cool ideas???

[Costin Leau]

I would suggest Alfresco - I haven't work it closely but overall their documentation and product seems to be solid. Also, it's totally opened and uses Spring internally so integration is really no issue.
They provide a JSR-170 connector along with a native API and IIRC, you also have other means to talk with it.
It works on literally any database supported by Hibernate and their documentation is satisfactory at least plus they have a friendly license.
Give the SDK a try and see how it goes.

[derrickhackman]

I looked at Alfresco is some detail and spoke to a sales rep to establish what an OEM license would look like (I want to integrate it as a unit into our application and since they have a GPL I need OEM to get around this). The cost of the OEM was about 20k USD/yr!

I have since decided to implement the JCR using the Spring Modules and put my content into my own repository.

Now, I have to sort out how to get the Spring Modules JCR to be properly wired with Jackrabbit.

If anyone has wired up the JCR with Jackrabbit, I would be curious to know your experience.. tips/tricks/etc....

Thanks.

[Costin Leau]

The cost of the OEM was about 20k USD/yr!

Ouch...

Now, I have to sort out how to get the Spring Modules JCR to be properly wired with Jackrabbit.

Have you looked at https://springmodules.dev.java.net/d...html/jcr.html? You also have a sample inside the distribution with local and global transactions on top of JR.
Moreover, you might want to take a look at this article: http://www.infoq.com/articles/spring-modules-jcr