Cyclone3
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| Cyclone3 | |
Cyclone3 XULadmin GUI. |
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| Developer: | Cyclone3 community |
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| Latest release: | Framework 3.0 / XULadmin 1.1 / January 29, 2007 |
| OS: | Cross-platform |
| Use: | content management framework, content management system, community |
| License: | GPL |
| Website: | www.cyclone3.org |
Cyclone3 is a free, open source modular content management framework and content management system engine. It is the first open source CMS using Mozilla Application Framework and has XUL administration frontend. It is licensed under the GNU General Public License.
It is currently in use by Slovak Ice-Hockey Federation[1] and the OpenDocument Fellowship's OpenDocument validation service [2].
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Cyclone3 XULadmin is an user-interface for Cyclone3 Framework. With the help of XULadmin, normal people like redactors, editors ect. can easy manage the content of a website. XULadmin is a complex tool for articles, images, pools, files, site-user management, sitemap, direct mail and much more...
Cyclone3 XULadmin works as an extension to the Mozilla Firefox browser. It uses Web 2.0 technologies like XUL (XML user-interface language) for front-end and AJAX for communication with back-end (server side). XULadmin frontend was originally developed by Peter Nemsak and Michal Ondrovic.
Originally written by Roman Fordinal in 2001 as a commercial content management system. At that time Cyclone3 was used for example by TV Markíza[3] for 3 years.
During the years many new features have been added to the system which eventually led to the creation of a application framework. All Cyclone3 applications are based on open standards and technologies like XUL, DocBook, XML-RPC, SOAP, OpenDocument, etc...
Cyclone3 is developed using Perl, C/C++, Java, XUL and JavaScript. This enables Cyclone3 create robust, well integrated and specialized applications.
- Full Unicode support.
- Internationalization (multilanguage, states, names, dates, numbers)
- Multi-template publisher (skinnable designs)
- Multi-content-type (document-type) publisher.
- Multi-engine framework (export, publisher, admin, job scheduller, ...)
- Cascade architecture (domain service, sub domain, sub sub domain, ...)
- One instalation can offer as many services as required.
- Search Engine optimized publisher ( full support for url rewrites, automatic redirect to new content)
- Modular design, logic and content is separated from design.
- Problem solving - automatic reporting, logging, debugging, profiling,.
- Designed for HighAvailability and support for multiple domains or multiple servers for one domain
- Powerfull execution (perl, mod_fastcgi, memcached)
- SStatistics subsystem. (SVG graphs)
- Can connect to various database backends (Oracle, PostgreSQL, ODBC, ...).
- ^ SZĽH - Slovak Ice-Hockey Federation
- ^ OpenDocument Fellowship - Volunteer organisation with goal to promote the adoption, use and development of the OpenDocument format.
- ^ TV Markíza - Largest private television network in Slovakia