Apache Lenya 2.0 Released

The Apache Lenya development community is very proud to announce the 2.0 release of Apache Lenya.
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Apache Lenya is an Open Source Java/XML Content Management System and comes with revision control, site management, scheduling, search, WYSIWYG editors, and workflow.

Apache Lenya is based on . You can use Cocoon features such as robust caching, multi-channel output, it's many connectivity options to quickly build customized solutions to meet your specific needs that are not already covered by Apache Lenya today.

Check out the Apache Lenya website for more information.

The Apache Lenya Community



New Features in Apache Lenya 2.0

Architecture
- Modularization
- Separation of API and implementation

Storage and Content Model
- Documents are referenced using UUIDs
- Improved management of internal links
- Configurable meta data element sets
- New protocols simplify repository access

Website Management
- Publication templating for re-using common functionality
in multiple publications
- Create new publication instances via the GUI
- Support for configurable publication properties

Access Control
- Explicitly deny permissions on particular pages

Assets and Images
- Assets and images are treated as documents
- Image upload in source editor
- SVG-based server-side image resizing

Workflow and Versioning
- Quickly manipulate multiple documents
- Personal user inboxes
- Function to override other users' check-out

Miscellaneous Features
- Various usability improvements
- News / weblog module with RSS generation
- Language selection widget
- Dynamically generated layout images, e.g. round corners
- Better and more flexible editor integration (work in progress)

Development
- Usecase framework to simplify the implementation of user
interaction functionality
- Improved repository API
- Cleanup of the code base

User and Developer Conference in Freiburg

From Monday, October 29 to Wednesday, October 31 2007 the second sucessful developer and user meeting was held at the Albert Ludwigs University Medical Center in Freiburg. The rooms and infrastructure were kindly provided by the Medical Center IT staff, who use Apache Lenya to manage and publish the organization’s website.

As one of the most important Apache Lenya user conferences, this gathering offers innovation at its best. A major goal of the Lenya conference is to bring users from various fields together and provide a platform for discussion and exchange of ideas. Users and developers come to learn new skills, share information, and discover best practices. The meeting is held on a regular basis, approximately two times a year.

Please find more information in the Lenya wiki.

Lenya at ohloh

I added the Lenya project to ohloh.

New Tutorial: Create a Resource Type

There's a new tutorial online which explains how to create a new resource type, based on a simple FoaF person XML structure:

• Declare the resource type
• Add new documents
• Presentation (XSLT, CSS)
• Editing with one-form editor
• Editing with BXE

Maybe you have to wait a while until the staging documentation is updated to see all parts of the tutorial.

Please Test the Proxy-Related Changes!

Thorsten introduced a ProxyTranformer which takes care of adding the correct proxy URL to all internal links. Apart from that, the navigation elements now produce UUID-based links, which has a lot of advantages.

Please take the opportunity to help us getting 1.4 RC1 out of the door and test these changes. You'll find the patches attached to bug 42050.

Proxying in the Way of 1.4?

At the moment, proxying is the most heavily discussed issue on the developers list. The core problem is that, with 1.4, module URLs have been introduced which are located outside a publication's URL space. The question is whether proxying should be responsible of mapping these URLs into the website space, or if we should change Lenya and introduce a reserved URL space for modules within publications. Feel free to join the discussion.

Website has been updated

Thanks to Thorsten Scherler, the Lenya Website has been updated again. The project guidelines have been updated, reflecting our traditional approach to voting for new committers. Apart from that, the structure of the documentation has been updated.

And I have added a tutorial about creating a new publication with 1.4. Feel free to give it a try and complain on the user list if something doesn't work as expected.