Daisy (CMS)

Daisy is a Java/XML open-source content management system based on the Apache Cocoon content management framework. Today, Daisy is in use at major corporations for intranet knowledge bases, product and/or project documentation, and management of content-rich websites.

Content Management System

The content is stored in so-called Daisy documents. These documents are managed by the Daisy Repository Server. Each document can have multiple variants. A variant can be a version or a translated document (language variant). Editing of Daisy documents is supported with a WYSIWYG Wiki-like editing environment.

Daisy is hierarchy-free and has a clear separation between repository server and front-end application. Site navigation trees can be made more dynamic using queries generating navigation hierarchies.

Other features are:

  • revision control
  • centralized ACL system
  • Jakarta Lucene based full-text indexing
  • book publishing which allows for the generation of nicely formatted books with table of contents, section numbering, cross-referencing, footnotes and index
  • facetted browsing

Requirements

The packaged versions of Daisy 1.5 includes everything required to run Daisy, except for:

  • a Java Virtual Machine (JVM): version 1.4.2, version 5 (= 1.5), or higher required
  • a MySQL database: version 4.1.7 or higher required (5 also fine)

Daisy is thoroughly tested on Linux and also runs on FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Windows NT/2000/XP. Additionally, Daisy displays properly in most major browsers: Internet Explorer and Mozilla/Firefox with fallback to a textarea on other browsers.

Outerthought

Outerthought is a geek-technical Open Source Java & XML company. Outerthought supports Daisy and its community of users and contributors in a responsive and transparant way.

Daisy Community

Outerthought is a private company and supports the mailing list. The documentation of Daisy runs on Daisy itself.

See also

  • Daisy is running in Apache Cocoon
  • List of content management systems

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