Submission by Felix Maeder
Apache Lenya 1.0rc1 Released
The Apache Lenya development community is very proud to announce the
long-awaited first stable release of Apache Lenya.
http://www.apache.org/dist/cocoon/lenya/
Apache Lenya is a Java Open-Source Content Management System based on
open standards such as XML and XSLT and the Apache Software Stack. Its
XML-centric architecture allows for content delivery targeted to the
capabilities of the devices of today and tomorrow, and avoids
data lock-in as with proprietary solutions. Apache Lenya is built
around Off the Shelf components from the Apache Software Foundation,
which are familiar to thousands of technologists, and are
documented extensively in dozens of books.
The Apache Software Stack is quickly becoming the preeminent platform for
building Internet applications. By leveraging the Apache Software Stack,
Apache Lenya offers a robust, future-proof solution that preserves
technology investments.
Apache Lenya comes with the features you would expect of a modern Content
Management System, such as Revision Control, Scheduling, a built-in Search
Engine, seperate Staging Areas, and Workflow. Because Apache Lenya uses
XML throughout, it can offer much more than other CMS that marginally
use XML.
Some notable features include:
* Browser-based WYSIWYG Editors that validate input against a W3C XML
Schema. This prevents invalid markup as produced by other editors,
and allows to enforce web site style guidelines.
* A publication concept that allows reuse of the information
architecture of a site and brings modularity to the content level.
"As an IT Trade Magazine, we care about independence" says
Wolfgang Boehler from Computerworld Switzerland, "it increases our
credibility. That is why we chose Apache Lenya for our site, and why
we intend to build on that first step."
"Having been personally obsessed for years for the quest for the
perfect Content Management Framework, I am very happy to see Lenya
seeding this on top of Cocoon technology." says Stefano Mazzocchi,
founder of the Apache Cocoon project, and adds: "The Apache Lenya
effort has to be seen as a powerful software seed for the creation
of a solid, healthy and diverse development community around the
problems of Content Management, but following the Cocoon philosophy
that we provide frameworks and toolkits and you build the stuff
you need."
This release of Apache Lenya is a refactored version of the codebase
that has been in production at major sites such as Neue Zuercher Zeitung
(www.nzz.ch) and the University of Zurich (www.unipublic.unizh.ch) for
nearly three years. Wyona Ltd donated the Apache Lenya codebase
(formerly known as Wyona CMS) to the Apache Software Foundation in
May 2003.
For more information about Apache Lenya, please go to:
http://cocoon.apache.org/lenya/
or contact gregor@apache.org
Thank for your interest and thanks to all who made this possible.
The Apache Lenya Worldwide Community
