Jahia is an excellent open source java web content management system.  This post focuses on how to install the Enterprise version of the Jahia WCM on your server using the pre-package Jahia compressed file found here http://extranet.jahia.com/jahia/Jahia/site/net/download/binaries_v6 . It will be a simple ride for you. So let’s start. More

So you’ve heard about Open Source from your IT guys?  They love that they can see the code, they can “play with it”.  They love all the freely available blogs and wikis, the community has excitement and momentum.  So you want to know if you should consider an Open Source WCM for your new website redesign? More

With the evolution of the web standards, features, the number of Open Source CMS packages available and their package cost advantages, there has been growing enthusiasm in the industry about the use of Open Source CMS packages. With this growing demand for Open Source CMS, there is an increasing demand for service providers such as Oshyn, who follow systematic comparative approach, evaluating their client requirements, the CMS feature set fit and the complexities in development using Open Source CMS, and guide their clients in making a knowledgable decision. To understand whether using an Open Source CMS is safe or not, we should first understand the advantages and disadvantages of using Open Source and then we can make a decision on when it is safe and when it might be risky. More

Jahia like another power full java based CMS like Alfresco, uses industry standard Lucene open source index engine. Lucene is a java based search engine for applications that requires full-text search. This engine can perform basic and complex searches over the data inserted in the Jahia system. More

Want to learn how to implement a jQuery plugin as a module in Jahia? First, we’ll add the same module twice in a page but passing different parameters to each module to change the appearance of both. Then we’ll implement AJAX in one module. Let’s imagine we are building a site in Jahia to sell products. The common things we find in a product page are product images, product descriptions, advertisements, etc.  For our product page we are adding a rating module that will allow us to show our score of the product, scores from another source (e.g. Other Web Site or Magazine) and let users rate the product and show their score too.We built a jQuery plugin that will allow us to display rating results. Plus letting the website visitor to rate the product in a simple way.In the image below we see how the plugin can show information, and how it lets the user rate the product using the slider. It is simple to show the rating module like in the second example.  More

Jahia has an embedded search engine that can be used by a Tag Library. This library offers components to build forms, field elements, components to display search results, and components to implement the pagination. I want to share a way of how to use the Jahia Search Tag Library to do full text searches.  More

Jahia is one of the best Java WCMs and KickApps is one of the best social media platforms.  I decided to put the KickApps widget into a Jahia module and see what I could do. More

In Enterprise environments, Jahia can be installed over other application Servers like JBoss. So in this post I want to explain how urlrewrite works with the Java API Tuckey that can be integrated in Jahia Enterprise installations. Also Jahia WCM can easily be leveraged to create SEO (Search Engine Optimization) Friendly URLs by your content editors. More

I want to share a possible implementation of how to do a print friendly view and email functionality in Jahia V6. I want to share this because these two types of functionality are very common across websites and Jahia can be used to easily implement them.  More