Connector Suite

Technical features

100% Java based and platform independent

complete support of multilingualism and dictionaries (UTF-8 Support)

support of JSR-168 Portlet standard and JSR-286 Portlet 2 standard

Velocity as template engine

multi-stage caching process (adapatble, based on Apache JCS)

large API for individual extension

Log4-J support (extensive logging possibilities)

options for failover and loadbalancing

Support of portalservers

presentation of CMS contents in several portalservers (IBM Websphere Portal, BEA Weblogic Portal, JBOSS; Liferay, webmethods Portals, etc.)

flexible navigation portlets for multilingualism, breadcrumbs, Sitemaps etc.

search portlet with open integration interface for search engines including autosuggestion function

Available APIs

simple and applicable method calls

REST-APIs for integration as webservice

Integration of CMS data at Flash applications

delivery of PHP content objects for PHP applications

direct integration of contents at Java applications, ASP.NET applications

Databases

Gentics Content Repository (for structured storage of portal relevant data

API for linking to data transfer (datasources) via web services SOAP/LDAP/SQL

web service provider for linking third-party applications to contents in Gentics Content repositories

support of monitoring solutions (JMX, etc.)

import of objects and data into the content repository possible

supported repository: Oracle™ Database, Microsoft SQL Server™, MySQL™

Documentation

extensive developmet references and API documentation

Gentics information portal for clients and partners

guides (installation, implementation, development