Infoglue CMS
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.
June 5th, 2004 at 9:00 pm
Hi, we spoke on the AMIS meeting and I took a look at infoglue. Also looks promissing for some stuff I’m involved in.
I’ve got it up and running but… have you got by any chance the infoglue manual layout around ?
June 5th, 2004 at 9:00 pm
laying around that is …
June 6th, 2004 at 8:41 am
I used the infoglue tutorials. Also the template reference is very usefull, although not complete. To get the full list of what’s possible in your templates it’s best to look at the code of BasicTemplateController.
July 15th, 2004 at 2:21 pm
Did you use the component concept or the old component binding? I am not getting the component thing up and running.
How do I place an image in a template that is used for a component page?
Wolfram
July 15th, 2004 at 2:27 pm
Sorry, can’t help you there. I used the old component binding, haven’t tried to use the new component concept.
November 12th, 2004 at 2:51 am
have you Service manual of infoglue?
may you send to me,please?
May 20th, 2005 at 8:43 am
after knowing good about infoglue, we also want to use it…but we have 2 quetion about, that are:
a- whether it supports DMs as well as CMS
b- can we merge it in our website/own template
August 11th, 2005 at 5:55 pm
You guys should spent more time with CSS/XHTML books… you site look completely diffrent in Opera – IE – Firefox
coffee maker nah!
April 17th, 2007 at 12:47 pm
Long time ago you wrote this… I have some problems with infoglue… for example I can’t Define a CSS page… don’t know why but the “Undefined”-link isn’t a link for me…
July 17th, 2007 at 10:33 pm
Infoglue is an awesome CMS tool. Here at Beepix we are using it for University of Dayton.
http://stage.ud.news.beepix.com/infoglueDeliverWorking/
August 23rd, 2007 at 4:16 pm
Annica: Watch the Infoglue tutorial video (it can be found on the official Infoglue website) and it’ll explain how to use CSS. I have no problems with using all 5+ CSS files.