The last 2 weeks i’ve been setting up a new website using a fairly new and unknown content management system: infoglue.
While searching for a java cms I first looked at MMBase. MMBase is a wel known CMS framework used for many sites in the Netherlands. The problem with it is that it’s a framework, it doesn’t have a complete user interface to setup a website. You unzip the mmbase application, which results in a standard java web application structure. You can add a new application by adding an application directory in the mmbase web application directory. I choose not to use mmbase because i was afraid it would be too difficult to maintain by others and i’d be doing that for the coming years.
Next i looked at infoglue. Infoglue is pretty new, the current version number is 1.2 (although that doesn’t always mean much). You can create a new website through infoglue’s web ui. Templates are also edited through this ui. I like the fact that Infoglue uses velocity as a templating language. Infoglue is also very flexible, you can add and modify new content types and define relationships between different pieces of content. In this sense it resembles mmbase, but with a user interface.
Infoglue does have some problems though, i’ve already submitted a couple of bug descriptions which you can find on sourceforge. (if i can find the time, i’ll also try to create patches…)
After running infoglue for a couple of days i had to restart tomcat, as the application was getting really slow. This won’t be a problem in production because I’m going to use wget to create a static site.
Infoglue looks very promissing, and i think it deserves more attention than it’s currently getting.