Jahia Unveils First Open Source Java-Based Composite Content Platform

Jahia, a provider of Web content integration software, released Jahia 6.5 beta, the first open source, Java-based Composite Content Platform designed to offer a solid, modular, zero coding Web content management solution.

According to the company, the new release of Jahia 6.5 aims at PHP-like ease of use with Java-based WCM update and is focused on ease of use for developers, though, and that may help it build out more of a library of product extensions. Jahia 6.5 is now open to external workflow engines thanks to the availability of Jahia’s new workflow service. The default workflow engine integration the company supports first is jBPM from JBoss, a flexible Business Process Management (BPM) suite based on the Process Virtual Machine (PVM).

Using the beta release developers and webmasters can complete sophisticated web projects in as little as one-fourth of the time by using any programming language with zero coding, making it easy to manage, author, and embed content composites from any source. The company explained that at present web and intranet projects are becoming more sophisticated and they are written specifically for certain purposes and communities, ranging all the way up to full-fledged apps designed to generate and manipulate content. Jahia 6.5 offers users an innovative suite of time-saving management tools.

If users are looking for enhancing their businesses with a next generation of User Experience Management that blends web, portal, social, search and content management capabilities then the new release of Jahia solution aptly caters to those demands.  

"Our upcoming release reaches new heights: it delivers not only limitless, modular, 'content smart' business solutions to Jahia users, but also multiple scripting support and zero code composition to development teams," said Emmanuel Garcin, vice president and general manager of Jahia North America, in a press release. "Jahia 6.5 reaches out to new communities of IT professionals looking to create rich, more sophisticated enterprise deployments."