Hippo CMS

Hippo CMS

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Stable release	7.1
Written in	Java
Operating system	Cross-platform
Development status	Active
Type	Content Management System
License	Apache 2.0 Licence
Website	http://www.onehippo.com/

Hippo CMS is an opensource information centered Content Management System. The Hippo CMS project was initiated and is maintained by Hippo. It's targeted at medium to large organisations managing content for multi-channel distribution like web sites and intranets. It facilitates an open and flexible way of using your information by following international accepted open standards.

Open Source and Open Standards

Hippo CMS is user friendly, has an Technical Architecture and is designed for interoperability with existing environments. Hippo CMS is built to integrate external sources of content into one. Therefore, it uses all relevant open standards to allow this integration. For many existing sources, connectors are available in the codebase.

The open architecture of Hippo CMS has the following key points:

• Faceted repository
• Open source
• JSR-170
• Works with open standards
• Reuse of content
• Separation of content, design, logic and the CMS system itself.
• User friendly user interface
• Native XML, 100 % JAVA
• No vendor lock-in

Open source projects

Hippo CMS is based on several proven open source projects, mainly from the Apache Software Foundation:

• Wicket
• Cocoon
• Jackrabbit
• Apache Webserver
• Apache Jetspeed
• Ant
• Avalon
• Lucene
• Maven
• Xerces
• Xalan
• FOP
• Batik

Hippo CMS is available under the Apache 2.0 license.

External links

• Hippo CMS website
• Hippo corporate website
• Hippo Forge