Janus Boye of CMSWatch notes IBM's quiet release of version 6.0 of their all important WebSphere Portal, noting its improved user interface (aka AJAX goodness) and the :
embedded Web content management system has been re-based on the JSR-170 compliant Java Content Repository included with the portal
A more comprehensive outline of what IBM have included in the biggest release in a long time is included in the DevelopWorks What's New article that Janus links to by Stefan Hepper, Stefan Liesche, Gregory Melahn and Thomas Stober.
Regarding WCM they note that a free, restricted license is included in Enable and Extend editions of WebSphere Portal. I am not sure how many Portal customers are aware of that.
This release of WCM adds a lot tighter integration with Portal. IBM's article adds some more colour:
In keeping with IBM's commitment to open standards, the Web Content Manager has been re-based on the Java Content Repository (JCR) included with WebSphere Portal. This repository is based on the JSR 170 standard. It is the same repository used for Portal Documents and enables the Web Content Management component to provide greater scalability and performance than in earlier releases. Having content in the JCR also makes it easier to personalize the content using business rules created with WebSphere Portal’s personalization component.
For administrators:
Web Content Management administration is simpler because its nodes can now share the same repository, allowing full clustering support in both production and authoring environments. The use of WebSphere logging and caching services and WebSphere Portal access control management also help to simplify administration.
The JCR provides a way to better organize content into content libraries. This capability had already been used by Portal Document Manager and is now used by Web Content Manager. Libraries help you to better manage Web content, making it easier to control access rights, separate test content from production content, organize multi-language content, and share content between sites.
For authors
The user experience for content authors has been simplified and enhanced. New data types such as links, numbers and dates, searching, custom help, limit checking, improved navigation, views and better rich text editing have been added. You can now easily author live content directly within a site by employing a new inline authoring component.
Both content authors and end users can more easily search content. Portal search collections can include Web content, and you can include a new search component into sites designed with Web Content Management.
As noted previously, we have upgraded our EditLive! for IBM Workplace Web Content Management to work with version 6.0 and it offers over 50 more commands and 17 dialogs for enhanced productivity and standards compliance than the default available with WCM.
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