This new version of Alkacon's popular content management system OpenCms 8 integrates TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor with IE 9 support. Italian and Russian localization contributed by the OpenCms community.

Cologne, NRW -- (SBWIRE) -- 04/17/2012 -- OpenCms 8.0.4 is an update that improves browser compatibility and fixes several issues that persisted in the 8.0.3 release.

In OpenCms 8.0.4 the TinyMCE editor has been integrated to support Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9. TinyMCE is a platform independent web based Javascript HTML WYSIWYG editor with Multilanguage support.

Italian and Russian localization of OpenCms has been contributed by the OpenCms community.

Configurable context menu dialogs have been added to the Advanced Direct Edit (ADE) mode.

OpenCms 8.0.4 offers an improved handling of deleted users in its account management's permissions dialog, an improved sitemap editor change handling and an improved synchronized lock behavior for offline indexing.

OpenCms 8.0.4 is fully backward compatible to all prior 8.x and 7.x versions. Templates and other OpenCms developed code from these version should work "out of the box" with version 8.0.4.

An easy to use update wizard for upgrading to OpenCms 8.0.4 is available, too.

The new version 8.0.4 can be downloaded for free from the OpenCms website at http://www.opencms.org

The new features and functionalities of OpenCms 8.0.4 can be tested online on the Live Demo Server at http://demo.opencms.org

Everybody interested in OpenCms should register for the OpenCms Days 2012 - Conference and Expo, September 2012 in Cologne, Germany, at http://www.opencms-days.org

About Alkacon Software
Alkacon Software GmbH is the company responsible for the development of OpenCms. Today OpenCms is a leading open source CMS solution in widespread use all over the world. Many businesses and organizations use OpenCms as a cost effective, professional alternative to expensive license products. Alkacon Software GmbH is the official maintainer and the major contributor for OpenCms.

Alkacon Software GmbH offers its customers training, support and add-on products for OpenCms. This gives the customer a layer of security and convenience often required for mission critical OpenCms installations.

Contact Information:
Alkacon Software GmbH - The OpenCms Experts
Peter Sreckovic
An der Wachsfabrik 13
50996 Koeln, DE

Tel: +49 (0)2236 3826-0
Fax: +49 (0)2236 3826-20
Email: info@alkacon.com

http://www.alkacon.com
http://www.opencms.org

SOURCE:
http://www.opencms.org/en/news/120411-opencms-v804.html

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

International conference OpenCms Days 2012 on "OpenCms 8 – Experiences, Possibilities, Potentials" from September 24 to 25, 2012 in Cologne, Germany. Call for Papers is closing June 15, 2012.

Cologne, NRW -- (SBWIRE) -- 03/30/2012 -- OpenCms Days 2012 will take place from Monday, September 24 to Tuesday, September 25, 2012 at the KOMED convention center in Cologne, Germany.

This year's conference motto is "OpenCms 8 – Experiences, Possibilities, Potentials".

This 4th annual gathering of OpenCms users will focus on success stories and projects based on OpenCms 8. Experts from all around the world will share their experiences with this latest OpenCms release. Alkacon will also unveil Version 8.5 of its successful open source website content management system OpenCms which will contain several enhancements.

The conference will feature 2 parallel tracks with Showcase and Workshop sessions.

The previous OpenCms Days have shown that this event is the best occasion to meet and mingle with OpenCms experts such as core developers, experienced consultants, independent CMS analysts, executive decision makers and other OpenCms users. Especially the conference's expo provides a great chance for sponsors to establish new business contacts and to get in touch with the OpenCms community.

OpenCms Days 2012 is targeted towards an international audience. The language spoken at the event is English, and all presentations will be held in English language.

Normal registration price is 200,- Euro, with early bird discount until July 1st 2012 only 180,- Euro.

The full program and list of speakers will be available July 1st, 2012 from the conference website at http://www.opencms-days.org.

OpenCms Days 2012 is event organized by Alkacon Software GmbH the 4th time since 2008. The goal of the event is to promote OpenCms and strengthen the OpenCms community.

About Alkacon Software
Alkacon Software GmbH is the company responsible for the development of OpenCms. Today OpenCms is a leading open source CMS solution in widespread use all over the world. Many businesses and organizations use OpenCms as a cost effective, professional alternative to expensive license products. Alkacon Software GmbH is the official maintainer and the major contributor for OpenCms.

Alkacon Software GmbH offers its customers training, support and add-on products for OpenCms. This gives the customer a layer of security and convenience often required for mission critical OpenCms installations.

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Alkacon Software GmbH - The OpenCms Experts
Peter Sreckovic
An der Wachsfabrik 13
50996 Koeln, DE

Tel: +49 (0)2236 3826-0
Fax: +49 (0)2236 3826-20
Email: info@alkacon.com

http://www.alkacon.com
http://www.opencms.org
http://www.opencms-days.org

http://www.facebook.com/opencms
http://www.twitter.com/AlkaconOpenCms
https://plus.google.com/103358026935578738937

SOURCE:
http://www.opencms.org/en/news/120328-opencmsdays-2012.html

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Version 8.0.3 of Alkacon's successful website content management system OpenCms 8 offers many improvements and innovative features for sitemap editor, ADE, galleries and dynamic functions. 10 years of know-how and consistent further development make OpenCms 8 one of the most stable, scalable, secure and easy to use CMS worldwide especially suited for large enterprise internet or intranet applications.

Cologne, Germany -- (SBWIRE) -- 11/20/2011 -- OpenCms 8 has made the work of a content editor easy as never seen before. Everything you need to create beautiful web pages is within reach on the page itself.

With OpenCms 8 new or existing content can be created or added with the Add Wizard by drag & drop. Content can be edited directly on the page with OpenCms 8's built-in editor. The used template or the appearance of an element can be changed with a mouse click. Lists are generated on the fly and arbitrary JSPs are added as Dynamic Functions.

Favorites lists can be created with OpenCms 8's built in clipboard to short cut workflow.

With OpenCms 8's Sitemap Editor entire website structures could be built from scratch within minutes from a set of predefined, reusable model pages and navigation is built automatically from the website structure.

Version 8.0.3 of Alkacon Software's successful open source website content management system OpenCms 8 is now ready and available for download from alkacon.com.

With the introduction of "Function Pages", JSP based dynamic pages can be added with simple drag and drop in the sitemap editor. JSP function elements can now have multiple formatters to be used in different containers.

The sitemap editor's improved "Create Page" dialog offers a wider choice of types distinguishing "Container Pages", "Type Pages" and "Function Pages". It is now also possible to select the page model when using the sitemap editor's context menu option "Create sub-page". The available container page models can be accessed for editing directly from the "Create page" dialog in the sitemap editor. Additionally the sitemap editor executes the "Show page" action if the page icon in the sitemap is clicked.

ADE Galleries have been improved with a text search field to directly search for "Galleries" and "Categories". Uploaded elements are now directly visible in the Galleries and the improved upload process translates filenames to avoid special chars but preserves the title property.

The Image Gallery now allows selecting images directly with double-click and offers a simplified scaling mechanism and an improved link selector.

An element's option bar now displays "Resource is currently locked" icon in ADE when resource is currently edited by another user in a multi-user scenario.

The classic OpenCms workplace now features a sophisticated mechanism to keep the internal link structure intact when a folder is copied.

With version 8.0.3 OpenCms now supports the latest PostgreSQL "stable release" version.

As true open source software, OpenCms is free of licensing costs.

About Alkacon Software
Alkacon Software GmbH is the company responsible for the development of OpenCms. Today OpenCms is a leading open source CMS solution in widespread use all over the world. Many businesses and organizations use OpenCms as a cost effective, professional alternative to expensive license products. Alkacon Software GmbH is the official maintainer and the major contributor for OpenCms.

Alkacon Software GmbH offers its customers training, support and add-on products for OpenCms. This gives the customer a layer of security and convenience often required for mission critical OpenCms installations.

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Alkacon's OAMP GeoMap Module 2.0 is a highly customizable KML-ready Google Maps Widget for OpenCms 8. Add a GeoMap to any page just by Drag & Drop from the ADE toolbar.

Cologne, Germany -- (SBWIRE) -- 10/07/2011 -- Version 2.0 of the OAMP GeoMap Module is a free add-on for the popular open source web content management system OpenCms 8 and is available now for download from alkacon.com.

With this module a content editor can add a full-featured and highly customizable Google maps widget to any page in an OpenCms 8 installation by Drag & Drop.

With the ADE Editor all changes are made directly on your website.

Multiple Locations can be selected by address or GPS-like coordinates. The interactive graphical user interface makes it easy to resize the map or change the zoom level or map type.

The OAMP GeoMap Module supports the KML file-format for Google maps. Existing KML data can be loaded from OpenCms' virtual file system or via URI from a remote server.

Application possibilities reach from holiday blogs, event promotion to a business site's contact information.

The automatically generated map integrates seamlessly in the individual corporate site template.

The module is available with full source code and documentation.

All Alkacon OAMP modules are released as full Open Source under the GNU GPL version 3. The source code of the modules is freely available at https://github.com/alkacon/alkacon-oamp

About OpenCms
OpenCms is an enterprise - ready web content management solution build in Java and XML from open source components.

OpenCms can easily be deployed on almost any existing IT infrastructure and provides powerful features especially suited for medium and large enterprise internet or intranet applications. OpenCms is open source software distributed under the LGPL license.

The successful new OpenCms 8 contains a greatly improved user interface for content managers and numerous other enhancements. The "Advanced Direct Edit" mode allows content managers to create page content by drag & drop. The new sitemap editor allows creating new pages and rearranging the navigation tree by drag & drop.

About Alkacon Software GmbH
Alkacon Software GmbH provides its customers with support, training and consulting services for OpenCms. Alkacon Software GmbH is dedicated to developing first class products and solutions for OpenCms installations. Alkacon Software GmbH is the official maintainer and the major contributor for OpenCms.

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

OpenCms 8 training courses on building websites and template development with OpenCms 8. An introduction to the new OpenCms 8 concepts including Advanced Direct Edit, formatters and containers - "on-site" at a location provided by the customer.

Cologne, NRW -- (SBWIRE) -- 09/29/2011 -- The new OpenCms 8 training courses of Alkacon Software provide the best possible introduction to OpenCms 8 development, right from the creators of OpenCms.

OpenCms 8 training courses are available at different skill levels and offer an introduction to the new OpenCms 8 concepts including Advanced Direct Edit, usage and creation of Templates, formatters and containers.

All Alkacon OpenCms courses have been developed specially for OpenCms and contain a variety of slides, lessons and exercises.

The training courses are available "on-site" at a location provided by the customer. The OpenCms Experts of Alkacon Software are used to travel worldwide.

The five day training course "Alkacon OpenCms Complete Training" is a comprehensive "jump start" to OpenCms development. It provides insight in OpenCms template and module creation, and also covers advanced procedures in OpenCms API development. The Alkacon OpenCms Complete Training Training course comes with a full set of exhaustive pre-build material. It contains over 500 slides and example code for more then 30 lessons . Also provided are exercises for all important topics.

The OpenCms Basic Template Training is a three day training course, intended for people with previous experience in building websites using HTML, PHP or other web technologies, but with basic Java knowledge only. This course provides an overview of JSP development basics in OpenCms and an introduction of the JSTL standard.

The Alkacon OpenCms Advanced API Training covers basic and advanced procedures in OpenCms API development. This three day training course is aimed at experienced Java web developers who have previous experience with Java, HTML and JSP and want to learn the OpenCms related special APIs.

Version 8 of Alkacon Software's successful open source website content management system OpenCms contains a greatly improved user interface for content managers and numerous other enhancements. The "Advanced Direct Edit" mode allows content managers to create page content by drag & drop. The new sitemap editor allows creating new pages and rearranging the navigation tree by drag & drop.

OpenCms is an enterprise - ready web content management solution build in Java and XML from open source components. OpenCms can easily be deployed on almost any existing IT infrastructure and provides powerful features especially suited for medium and large enterprise internet or intranet applications. OpenCms is open source software distributed under the LGPL license.

About Alkacon Software
Alkacon Software GmbH is the company responsible for the development of OpenCms. Today OpenCms is a leading open source CMS solution in widespread use all over the world. Many businesses and organizations use OpenCms as a cost effective, professional alternative to expensive license products. Alkacon Software GmbH is the official maintainer and the major contributor for OpenCms.

Alkacon Software GmbH offers its customers training, support and add-on products for OpenCms. This gives the customer a layer of security and convenience often required for mission critical OpenCms installations.

Contact Information:
Alkacon Software GmbH - The OpenCms Experts
Peter Sreckovic
An der Wachsfabrik 13
50996 Koeln, DE

Tel: +49 (0)2236 3826-0
Fax: +49 (0)2236 3826-20
Email: info@alkacon.com

http://www.alkacon.com
http://www.opencms.org

SOURCE:
http://www.alkacon.com/en/news/110927-opencms-8-training-courses.html

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Alkacon OCEE 3.0.2 extends an OpenCms 8 installation with LDAP, Clustering, Replication and improved performance. OCEE increases scalability, availability and failover security of mission-critical high-traffic OpenCms sites of a medium or large Enterprise. Adds http request load balancing and full integration of existing LDAP user directories with the OpenCms permission system.

Cologne, NRW -- (SBWIRE) -- 08/26/2011 -- The Alkacon OpenCms Enterprise Extensions are a commercial extension for the popular open source web content management system OpenCms that offers support for LDAP, Clustering, Replication and improved performance.

The Alkacon OpenCms Enterprise Extensions consist of several OCEE modules and are available in tailor-made packages to meet functional and budgetary requirements. The OCEE Cluster package contains all available OCEE modules.

The OCEE Cluster Manager allows for clustering of OpenCms Servers in combination with Hardware Load balancers (e.g. CISCO local director). OpenCms Clusters add failover security for mission – critical environments, and good scaling availability for high traffic sites. Centralized configuration of servers with the OCEE Cluster allows a Content Manager to edit the scheduled jobs, search index configuration and module parameters for all individual servers in the cluster from a common GUI in the workplace server.

Using the database replication feature provided by the Alkacon OCEE Replicator, it is possible to replicate the complete (or part of the) OpenCms repository data to remote database instances. These remote instances are also automatically updated when changed data is published. Using this feature it is for example possible to have a separate internal OpenCms "work server" inside of a secured intranet, and a public OpenCms "production server" in a DMZ. Main features in OCEE are support for multi-staging scenarios with the OCEE Replicator: A "development" server can be configured that first pushes all generated content to a "staging" server e.g. for approval, and then afterwards to the "delivery" server. This is freely configurable, and there is no limit on the number of stages. With OCEE 3.0.2 a new interface has been added to tap into the replication process with the option to trigger cache flushing at external services like Akamai.

With the Alkacon OCEE LDAP connector, full integration of existing LDAP user directories with the OpenCms permission system is available. The connected LDAP server can be used to fully replace or in addition to the standard Database User and Group Management. Full integration of LDAP users and Groups allow using these for all OpenCms authentication and ACL permission management. Optionally, the Web interface generated by OpenCms can be used to change the password of an already logged in user. Furthermore the OCEE LDAP Connector now supports group name translation and support for nested groups when using Microsoft Active Directory. It is now possible to connect each OpenCms Organizational Unit with an individual path in the LDAP Server.

The Alkacon OCEE Database Transaction Manager adds transaction support to the database operations performed by OpenCms. This adds an additional layer of security for long-running, large applications, especially for more complex OpenCms database operations like e.g. "publishing". The OCEE transaction manager ensures that in case of failure, database operations are properly rolled back, so that the overall data structure remains consistent.

The Alkacon OCEE Accelerator provides additional high performance caches to accelerate the data access and delivery. Using the Alkacon OCEE Accelerator, an OpenCms system can respond faster to database requests. High – traffic sites will especially benefit from this feature. The improved OCEE Accelerator in OCEE 3.0 now features memory usage information to cache statistics. A much improved cache policy in the OCEE Accelerator now selectively flushes only certain cached items after publishing instead of just flushing everything.

The Alkacon OCEE VFS Doctor Database maintenance tool operates much like the known "Check disk" or "Repair hard drive" functionality from a standard operating system. It checks the consistency of the OpenCms file database, and reports (optionally repairs) all problems found. Running this tool you can repair the most common issues that may otherwise put your OpenCms database in an inconsistent state.

The latest OCEE release version 3.0.2 is a compatibility update to work with the new OpenCms 8.0.2.

Alkacon OCEE adds features to OpenCms that are often required for running OpenCms in a medium or large Enterprise, where data consistency, security and failover are highly important.

The Alkacon OpenCms Enterprise Extensions are available as a licensed software product from Alkacon Software GmbH, the company responsible for most of the development of the open source core OpenCms system.

OCEE is a binary only distribution. This means that the source code for the OCEE modules is not available.

OCEE is installed on a standard OpenCms system. OpenCms from Alkacon Software is a professional, easy to use website content management system. OpenCms helps content managers worldwide to create and maintain beautiful websites fast and efficiently.

The fully browser based user interface features configurable editors for structured content with well defined fields. Alternatively, content can be created using an integrated WYSIWYG editor similar to well known office applications. A sophisticated template engine enforces a site-wide corporate layout and W3C standard compliance for all content.

OpenCms is based on Java and XML technology. It can be deployed in an open source environment (e.g. Linux, Apache, Tomcat, MySQL) as well as on commercial components (e.g. Windows NT, IIS, BEA Weblogic, Oracle).
As true open source software, OpenCms is free of licensing costs.

About Alkacon Software
Alkacon Software GmbH is the company responsible for the development of OpenCms. Today OpenCms is a leading open source CMS solution in widespread use all over the world. Many businesses and organizations use OpenCms as a cost effective, professional alternative to expensive license products. Alkacon Software GmbH is the official maintainer and the major contributor for OpenCms.

Alkacon Software GmbH offers its customers training, support and add-on products for OpenCms. This gives the customer a layer of security and convenience often required for mission critical OpenCms installations.

Contact Information:
Alkacon Software GmbH - The OpenCms Experts
Peter Sreckovic
An der Wachsfabrik 13
50996 Koeln, DE

Tel: +49 (0)2236 3826-0
Fax: +49 (0)2236 3826-20
Email: info@alkacon.com

http://www.alkacon.com
http://www.opencms.org

SOURCE:
http://www.alkacon.com/en/news/110823-alkacon-ocee-v302.html

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

With Version 8.0.2 Alkacon Software adds many important and useful additional features and improvements to its successful website content management system OpenCms 8. OpenCms 8.0.2 supports Apache Tomcat 7 and features a significantly improved Sitemap Configuration, Sitemap Editor and ADE. OpenCms 8.0.2 offers an optimized performance regarding SEO and security aspects (XSS).

Cologne, NRW -- (SBWIRE) -- 08/22/2011 -- Version 8.0.2 of Alkacon Software's successful open source website content management system OpenCms 8 is now ready and available for download from alkacon.com.

OpenCms 8 contains a greatly improved user interface for content managers and numerous other enhancements. The "Advanced Direct Edit" mode allows content managers to create page content by drag & drop. The new sitemap editor allows creating new pages and rearranging the navigation tree by drag & drop.

In version 8.0.2 it's now possible to easily enable drag & drop for any existing JSP by just creating a reference to the JSP with the new ADE resource type "Dynamic Function". Furthermore, refined element permissions for ADE now support Elements dragable by everyone, but editable only with special permissions.

Group containers now have a "Break Up" option which removes the group and places all elements individually on currently edited page, making it easier to create pages with slightly different configurations.

If a content is previewed in the ADE content gallery, it can now directly be dragged & dropped from the content preview to the current page.

In Version 8.0.2 the sitemap editor now displays status information such as title and VFS location above the currently edited sitemap and features a "go to the parent sitemap" option in the toolbar.

The significantly improved sitemap configuration options in OpenCms 8.0.2 make it much easier to create sophisticated special configurations.

Another new feature - XSD path translation - automatically checks and rewrites paths in referencing XML content when the XSD file is moved or renamed. The improved server side filtering in OpenCms 8.0.2 helps avoid Cross Site Scripting (XSS). And for SEO aspects, the Sitemap Editor now has a refined naming schema for automatically created resources.

In version 8.0.2 OpenCms now even supports Apache Tomcat 7 and can be deployed to a wide range of open source environments (Linux, Apache, Tomcat, JBoss, GlassFish, Resin, MySQL, PostgreSQL) or commercial components (Windows, Unix, Solaris, IIS, BEA Weblogic, Oracle, MS SQL). The outstanding, totally browser-based GUI works with all the latest top browsers (Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome, Safari).

OpenCms 8.0.2 is fully backward compatible to all prior 7.x versions. Templates and other OpenCms developed code from version 7.0 or 7.5 should work "out of the box" with version 8.0.2.

Upgrading to OpenCms 8.0.2 is more than worthwhile, since the legacy direct edit provider for pages using "old" templates now allows to open the "Property" dialog to edit the page properties in direct edit mode.

An easy to use update wizard is available, too.

Independent research has shown OpenCms to be a market leading solution amongst Open Source CMS systems. The software has been in continuous development for the last 10 years and has an active community of Open Source developers.

More than 100 international IT companies have been registered as official OpenCms Solution Provider on the OpenCms website. A steadily growing list of reference sites also shows the increasing use of OpenCms.

OpenCms is an enterprise - ready web content management solution build in Java and XML from open source components. OpenCms can easily be deployed on almost any existing IT infrastructure and provides powerful features especially suited for medium and large enterprise internet or intranet applications. OpenCms is open source software distributed under the LGPL license.

About Alkacon Software
Alkacon Software GmbH is the company responsible for the development of OpenCms. Today OpenCms is a leading open source CMS solution in widespread use all over the world. Many businesses and organizations use OpenCms as a cost effective, professional alternative to expensive license products. Alkacon Software GmbH is the official maintainer and the major contributor for OpenCms.

Alkacon Software GmbH offers its customers training, support and add-on products for OpenCms. This gives the customer a layer of security and convenience often required for mission critical OpenCms installations.

Contact Info:
Alkacon Software GmbH - The OpenCms Experts
Peter Sreckovic
An der Wachsfabrik 13
50996 Koeln, DE

Tel: +49 (0)2236 3826-0
Fax: +49 (0)2236 3826-20
Email: info@alkacon.com

http://www.alkacon.com
http://www.opencms.org

SOURCE:
http://www.opencms.org/en/news/110818-opencms-v802.html

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Alkacon OAMP Webform and Survey Modules 2.0 for OpenCms 8. Easy creation of complex forms by Drag & Drop. HTML formatting done with StringTemplate. Supported databases: Oracle, MS SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL.

Cologne, NRW -- (SBWIRE) -- 08/02/2011 -- Version 2.0 of the OAMP Webform Module, which is available now for download from alkacon.com, extends an OpenCms 8 installation with the capability to easily create highly configurable online input forms without knowledge of HTML. A Webform could be added to any page in OpenCms 8 just by Drag & Drop. With the ADE Editor all changes are made directly on your website.

With the added PostgreSQL and MS SQL support in version 2.0, the Webform Module now runs on the most popular database applications.

Since version 2.0 HTML formatting is done with the popular java template engine StringTemplate. The model-view separation makes the Webform Module more flexible and maintainable. Changes to HTML generation get displayed without restarting your servlet container.

Refining the front end report, an optional automatic height calculation has been implemented.

The export of database entries to a CSV export file has been improved with version 2.0. If numbers should be shown unchanged e.g. in Microsoft Excel, they can be formatted as string.

Moreover there is version 2.0 of the OAMP Survey Module. With the flexible survey definition, based on the Alkacon OAMP Webform Module, an OpenCms content manager can create a questionnaire for his company's market research with a few clicks.

The automatically generated survey integrates seamlessly in the individual corporate site template.

A report page shows the analysis of all given answers to a survey, with colored graphical bars or even every single given answer of a user in a detail page.

Both modules are available with full source code and documentation.

All Alkacon OAMP modules are released as full Open Source under the GNU GPL version 3. The source code of the modules is freely available at https://github.com/alkacon/alkacon-oamp

About OpenCms
OpenCms is an enterprise - ready web content management solution build in Java and XML from open source components.

OpenCms can easily be deployed on almost any existing IT infrastructure and provides powerful features especially suited for medium and large enterprise internet or intranet applications. OpenCms is open source software distributed under the LGPL license.

The successful new OpenCms 8 contains a greatly improved user interface for content managers and numerous other enhancements. The "Advanced Direct Edit" mode allows content managers to create page content by drag & drop. The new sitemap editor allows creating new pages and rearranging the navigation tree by drag & drop.

About Alkacon Software GmbH
Alkacon Software GmbH provides its customers with support, training and consulting services for OpenCms. Alkacon Software GmbH is dedicated to developing first class products and solutions for OpenCms installations. Alkacon Software GmbH is the official maintainer and the major contributor for OpenCms.

http://www.alkacon.com
http://www.opencms.org

SOURCE:
http://www.alkacon.com/en/news/110728-alkacon-oamp-webform-survey-v20.html

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Alkacon Software GmbH now supports mobile.de in the development of OpenCms projects. The first project was the optimization of the existing mobile.de OpenCms infrastructure.

Cologne, NRW -- (SBWIRE) -- 07/11/2011 -- mobile.de has been using the popular Open Source Content Management System OpenCms for managing editorial content on its website for a considerable time. Alkacon Software, the developers of OpenCms, now support the editorial staff at mobile.de in realizing future requirements. The first project focused on accelerating editorial processes by installing an OpenCms cluster. "We are proud that Germany's biggest vehicle online marketplace with 67 million visitors per month is using OpenCms. It's great that we can deliver our professional OpenCms Services to mobile.de in the future." says Alexander Kandzior, CEO of Alkacon Software GmbH.

About Alkacon Software
Alkacon Software GmbH is the company responsible for the development of OpenCms. Independent research has shown OpenCms to be a market leading solution amongst Open Source CMS systems. The software has been in continuous development for the last 10 years and has an active community of Open Source developers. Alkacon Software GmbH offers its customers training, support and add-on products for OpenCms. This gives the customers a layer of security and convenience often required for mission critical OpenCms installations.

About mobile.de
mobile.de was founded in 1996 and is Germany' biggest vehicle online marketplace with 67 million visitors per month (IVW 05/2011). Currently there are more than 1.4 million vehicles on sale. mobile.de has the biggest offering of passenger cars, utility vehicles and motor cycles nationwide. (Source: CAR-Institute). Users are private customers as well as over 35.000 registered car-dealers. The vehicle marketplace is localized in 9 languages. mobile.de is part of mobile.international GmbH that runs marketplaces in Italy, France, Poland and Romania besides the German market leader. The company has 140 employees at their facility in Dreilinden/Berlin and is a subsidiary company of eBay International AG.

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

With the release of version 8.0.1 Alkacon Software even improves its successful web content management system OpenCms 8 considerably. The greatly simplified new sitemap editor and the "Advanced Direct Edit" mode makes it easy to create new pages, page content and rearrange the navigation tree the by drag & drop.

Cologne, NRW -- (SBWIRE) -- 07/04/2011 -- The successful new OpenCms 8 contains a greatly improved user interface for content managers and numerous other enhancements. The "Advanced Direct Edit" mode allows content managers to create page content by drag & drop. The new sitemap editor allows creating new pages and rearranging the navigation tree by drag & drop.

With Version 8.0.1 the sitemap and ADE configuration has been greatly simplified and improved. The properties of a page can now be modified directly in the ADE editor and a "log out" option has been added to the its menu.

In the sitemap editor there is a new option to go back to the last page viewed in the ADE editor. Moreover the sitemap editor now displays the lock status of pages and sub-pages and handles lock conflicts.

The full text search now also works on MS Office Open XML based documents (.docx, .xlsx, .pptx).

To demonstrate a possible multi language setup, German content was added to the Template III flower showcase.

OpenCms 8 is fully backward compatible to all prior 7.x versions. Templates and other OpenCms developed code from version 7.0 or 7.5 should work "out of the box" with version 8.

An easy to use update wizard is available, too.

OpenCms is one of the most popular Open Source Content Management Solutions. This new version was developed by Alkacon Software GmbH with the support of the international OpenCms developer community.

About OpenCms
Independent research has shown OpenCms to be a market leading solution amongst Open Source CMS systems. The software has been in continuous development for the last 10 years and has an active community of Open Source developers.

More than 100 international IT companies have been registered as official OpenCms Solution Provider on the OpenCms website. A steadily growing list of reference sites also shows the increasing use of OpenCms.

OpenCms is an enterprise - ready web content management solution build in Java and XML from open source components. OpenCms can easily be deployed on almost any existing IT infrastructure and provides powerful features especially suited for medium and large enterprise internet or intranet applications. OpenCms is open source software distributed under the LGPL license.

About Alkacon Software
Alkacon Software GmbH is the company responsible for the development of OpenCms. Today OpenCms is a leading open source CMS solution in widespread use all over the world. Many businesses and organizations use OpenCms as a cost effective, professional alternative to expensive license products. Alkacon Software GmbH is the official maintainer and the major contributor for OpenCms.

Alkacon Software GmbH offers its customers training, support and add-on products for OpenCms. This gives the customer a layer of security and convenience often required for mission critical OpenCms installations.

Contact Information:
Alkacon Software GmbH - The OpenCms Experts
Peter Sreckovic
An der Wachsfabrik 13
50996 Koeln, DE

Tel: +49 (0)2236 3826-0
Fax: +49 (0)2236 3826-20
Email: info@alkacon.com

http://www.alkacon.com
http://www.opencms.org

SOURCE:
http://www.opencms.org/en/news/110629-opencms-v801.html

SCREENSHOTS:
http://www.opencms.org/v8/screenshots.zip

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Cologne, NRW -- (SBWIRE) -05/25/2011 -- The Alkacon OCEE OpenCms Enterprise Extensions are now available in version 3.0 for OpenCms 8.

This is a compatibility update with some new features and improvements for the latest version 8 of the popular web content management system OpenCms.

The Alkacon OpenCms Enterprise Extensions are a commercial extension for the popular open source web content management system OpenCms that offers support for LDAP, Clustering, Replication and improved performance.

The latest OCEE release version 3.0 is a compatibility update to work with the new OpenCms 8.

New features and improvements in OCEE 3.0 for OpenCms 8 include improved OCEE Accelerator that now features memory usage information to cache statistics.

Furthermore the OCEE LDAP Connector now supports group name translation and support for nested groups when using Microsoft Active Directory.

Main features in OCEE are support for multi-staging scenarios with the OCEE Replicator: A "development" server can be configured that first pushes all generated content to a "staging" server e.g. for approval, and then afterwards to the "delivery" server.

This is freely configurable, and there is no limit on the number of stages.

Centralized configuration of servers with the OCEE Cluster allows a Content Manager to edit the scheduled jobs, search index configuration and module parameters for all individual servers in the cluster from a common GUI in the workplace server.

It is now possible to connect each OpenCms Organizational Unit with an individual path in the LDAP Server.

A much improved cache policy in the OCEE Accelerator now selectively flushes only certain cached items after publishing instead of just flushing everything.

Alkacon OCEE adds features to OpenCms that are often required for running OpenCms in a medium or large Enterprise, where data consistency, security and failover are highly important.

The Alkacon OpenCms Enterprise Extensions are available as a licensed software product from Alkacon Software GmbH, the company responsible for most of the development of the open source core OpenCms system.

OCEE is a binary only distribution. This means that the source code for the OCEE modules is not available.

OCEE is installed on a standard OpenCms system. OpenCms from Alkacon Software is a professional, easy to use website content management system. OpenCms helps content managers worldwide to create and maintain beautiful websites fast and efficiently.

The fully browser based user interface features configurable editors for structured content with well defined fields. Alternatively, content can be created using an integrated WYSIWYG editor similar to well known office applications. A sophisticated template engine enforces a site-wide corporate layout and W3C standard compliance for all content.

OpenCms is based on Java and XML technology. It can be deployed in an open source environment (e.g. Linux, Apache, Tomcat, MySQL) as well as on commercial components (e.g. Windows NT, IIS, BEA Weblogic, Oracle).

As true open source software, OpenCms is free of licensing costs.

About Alkacon Software
Alkacon Software GmbH is the company responsible for the development of OpenCms. Today OpenCms is a leading open source CMS solution in widespread use all over the world. Many businesses and organizations use OpenCms as a cost effective, professional alternative to expensive license products. Alkacon Software GmbH is the official maintainer and the major contributor for OpenCms.

Alkacon Software GmbH offers its customers training, support and add-on products for OpenCms. This gives the customer a layer of security and convenience often required for mission critical OpenCms installations.

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Alkacon Software GmbH - The OpenCms Experts
Peter Sreckovic
An der Wachsfabrik 13
50996 Koeln, DE

Tel: +49 (0)2236 3826-0
Fax: +49 (0)2236 3826-20
Email: info@alkacon.com

http://www.alkacon.com
http://www.opencms.org

SOURCE:
http://www.alkacon.com/en/news/110525-alkacon-ocee-v3.html

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The Alkacon OAMP ExcelImport Module generates XML contents from large amount of data in Excel-Sheets.

Cologne, NRW -- (SBWIRE) -- 04/22/2011 -- The Alkacon OAMP ExcelImport Module provides functionality to import an Excel file into OpenCms and create XML contents from the contained Excel records automatically.

The ExcelImport Module could be used for quick content creation from large offline data collections like news, events, address lists or list of employees or even stock of products. Excel sheet column names get matched to XML tags in a defined but freely configurable way. Existing XML content gets updated if a set of balanced quantifiers reaches a threshold value. Direct publishing can be switched on with a checkbox.

The module is now available for download from www.alkacon.com with full source code and documentation.

All Alkacon OAMP modules are released as full Open Source under the GNU GPL version 3. The source code of the modules is freely available in the public CVS of cvs.opencms.org.

OpenCms is a complete and powerful open source web content management system. OpenCms provides powerful features especially suited for medium and large enterprise internet or intranet applications.

OpenCms is based on Java and XML technology. It can be deployed in an open source environment (e.g. Linux, Apache, Tomcat, MySQL) as well as on commercial components (e.g. Windows NT, IIS, BEA Weblogic, Oracle).

As true open source software, OpenCms is free of licensing costs.

About Alkacon Software GmbH
Alkacon Software GmbH provides its customers with support, training and consulting services for OpenCms. Alkacon Software GmbH is dedicated to developing first class products and solutions for OpenCms installations. Alkacon Software GmbH is the official maintainer and the major contributor for OpenCms.

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Alkacon Software GmbH - The OpenCms Experts
Peter Sreckovic
An der Wachsfabrik 13
50996 Koeln, DE

Tel: +49 (0)2236 3826-0
Fax: +49 (0)2236 3826-20
Email: info@alkacon.com

http://www.alkacon.com
http://www.opencms.org

SOURCE:
http://www.alkacon.com/en/news/110413-alkacon-oamp-excelimport.html

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Alkacon Software releases version 7.5.4 of OpenCms, the popular Java based open source content management system (CMS). Version 7.5.4 fixes several issues (security, internet explorer, oracle, etc.)

Cologne, NRW -- (SBWIRE) -- 04/05/2011 -- Version 7.5.4 of OpenCms is now ready and available for download from alkacon.com.

OpenCms is one of the most popular Open Source Content Management Solutions. This new version was developed by Alkacon Software GmbH with the support of the international OpenCms developer community.

OpenCms 7.5.4 is a maintenance release that fixes a number of issues that persisted in the 7.5.3 version. This version fixes several security issues, concerning cross site scripting (XSS) and offers improved compatibility, performance and stability when working with Internet Explorer, Firefox and Oracle database.

The handling of historical versions has been improved and database requests at driver layer have been optimized.

OpenCms 7.5.4 is fully backward compatible to all prior 7 versions. It is recommended that OpenCms users update their installation to the 7.5.4 release. OpenCms 7.5 is largely backward compatible with version 6. An easy to use update wizard for OpenCms Version 6 and prior 7 installations for MySQL, Oracle and PostgreSQL is available.

General Features of OpenCms 7.5:
"Direct Edit" allows editing of content directly from a web page. Moreover, OpenCms offers editors for nearly every use case. The XML content Editor for structured content / pages generated automatically from a simple XML schema. OpenCms includes an editor with syntax highlighting functionality for all text based files (e.g. XML, HTML, JSP). A WYSIWYG editor for unstructured pages is available.

OpenCms offers an easy to use "Online / Offline" workflow, where all changes or new pages must be approved / published first before they become visible "Online".

The "Content Relationship Engine" (CRE) of OpenCms allows a full internal management of relations and links for all resources in the system. If files (or folders) are moved, all links to these files are kept intact.

OpenCms 7.5 has an integrated image processing, scaling and cropping. Images and other content are organized in galleries with advanced AJAX features. Gallery dialogs support grouping of content by category or based on folder.

The full featured internal user management supports the concept of "Organizational Units" (OUs). It is possible to delegate management of users / groups in OUs to Sub-Administrators. User permissions are based on a complete set of system "Roles".

Extensions and Add-Ons for OpenCms can be added through a full featured module system.

JSP integration allows standards based creation of dynamic functionality in templates, dynamic forms etc.

OpenCms supports Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server, DB2, AS400 and HSQLDB databases.

About OpenCms
Independent research has shown OpenCms to be a market leading solution amongst Open Source CMS systems. The software has been in continuous development for the last 9 years and has an active community of Open Source developers.

More than 100 international IT companies have been registered as official OpenCms Solution Provider on the OpenCms website. A steadily growing list of reference sites also shows the increasing use of OpenCms.

OpenCms is an enterprise - ready web content management solution build in Java and XML from open source components. OpenCms can easily be deployed on almost any existing IT infrastructure and provides powerful features especially suited for medium and large enterprise internet or intranet applications. OpenCms is open source software distributed under the LGPL license.

About Alkacon Software
Alkacon Software GmbH is the company responsible for the development of OpenCms. Today OpenCms is a leading open source CMS solution in widespread use all over the world. Many businesses and organizations use OpenCms as a cost effective, professional alternative to expensive license products. Alkacon Software GmbH is the official maintainer and the major contributor for OpenCms.

Alkacon Software GmbH offers its customers training, support and add-on products for OpenCms. This gives the customer a layer of security and convenience often required for mission critical OpenCms installations.

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Alkacon Software GmbH - The OpenCms Experts
Peter Sreckovic
An der Wachsfabrik 13
50996 Koeln, DE
Tel: +49 (0)2236 3826-0
Fax: +49 (0)2236 3826-20
Email: info@alkacon.com
http://www.alkacon.com
http://www.opencms.org

SOURCE:
http://www.alkacon.com/en/news/110328-opencms-v754.html

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

The OAMP HtmlCleaner Module from Alkacon Software removes invalid tags and attributes from HTML. Eliminates white space from HTML.

Cologne, NRW -- (SBWIRE) -- 03/14/2011 -- Using the new OAMP HtmlCleaner Module an OpenCms content manager gains full control of the usage of HTML tags and attributes. The HtmlCleaner removes or replaces tags and attributes in HTML documents fully automatic in compliance with the freely configurable preset.

HtmlCleaner eliminates unnecessary white space from HTML code. Compact file-size of HTML sources could help increase website performance through optimized page response time. Once configured the module works stealthy and helps observe coding standards and naming conventions.

This Add-On can be applied to selected single files or folders or even up to complete folder structures and sites.

The OAMP HtmlCleaner processes HTML and non-validating XML.

The module is available with full source code and documentation.

Now available for download from http://www.alkacon.com

All Alkacon OAMP modules are released as full Open Source under the GNU GPL version 3. The source code of the modules is freely available in the public CVS of cvs.opencms.org.

OpenCms is a complete and powerful open source web content management system. OpenCms provides powerful features especially suited for medium and large enterprise internet or intranet applications.

OpenCms is based on Java and XML technology. It can be deployed in an open source environment (e.g. Linux, Apache, Tomcat, MySQL) as well as on commercial components (e.g. Windows NT, IIS, BEA Weblogic, Oracle).

As true open source software, OpenCms is free of licensing costs.

About Alkacon Software GmbH
Alkacon Software GmbH provides its customers with support, training and consulting services for OpenCms. Alkacon Software GmbH is dedicated to developing first class products and solutions for OpenCms installations. Alkacon Software GmbH is the official maintainer and the major contributor for OpenCms.

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Alkacon Software GmbH - The OpenCms Experts
Peter Sreckovic
An der Wachsfabrik 13
50996 Koeln, DE

Tel: +49 (0)2236 3826-0
Fax: +49 (0)2236 3826-20
Email: info@alkacon.com

http://www.alkacon.com
http://www.opencms.org

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

International conference OpenCms Days 2011 call for papers. Final deadline for speakers to submit their session proposals is March 01, 2011.

Cologne, Germany -- (SBWIRE) -- 03/02/2011 -- OpenCms Days 2011 will take place from Monday, May 09 to Tuesday, May 10, 2011 in Cologne, Germany.

Final deadline for speakers to submit their session proposals is March 01, 2011

Session proposals are welcome. Each session will be 60 minutes long. A typical presentation session should be 45 minutes, followed by a 15 minutes discussion. Other session formats, such as workshops, roundtable discussions and BOF meetings, are also possible.

Session proposals should focus on successful OpenCms projects and should deliver a clear practical value to the audience, e.g. in the form of an OpenCms module or extension that is freely available. For example, this could be

* Highly specialized custom versions based on OpenCms you want to share with the community

* Module extensions and add-ons you developed

* Successful implementation of a customer's needs in an OpenCms project

Only sessions that are of general interest for all OpenCms users are allowed. Company or product promotional sessions will be rejected.

OpenCms Days 2011 is targeted towards an international audience. The language spoken at the event will be English, and all presentations have to be held in English language, too.

Call for papers is closing March 01, 2011.

The full program and list of speakers will be available March 16, 2011 from the conference website.

OpenCms Days 2011 conference and expo is an event organized by Alkacon Software GmbH. The goal of the event is to promote OpenCms and strengthen the OpenCms community.

Official website of the OpenCms Days 2011:
http://www.opencms-days.org

OpenCms is a complete and powerful open source web content management system that provides powerful features especially suited for medium and large enterprise internet or intranet applications.

OpenCms is based on Java and XML technology. It can be deployed in an open source environment (e.g. Linux, Apache, Tomcat, MySQL) as well as on commercial components (e.g. Windows NT, IIS, BEA Weblogic, Oracle).

About Alkacon Software GmbH
Alkacon Software GmbH provides its customers with support, training and consulting services for OpenCms. Alkacon Software GmbH is dedicated to developing first class products and solutions for OpenCms installations. Alkacon Software GmbH is the official maintainer and the major contributor for OpenCms.

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Alkacon Software GmbH - The OpenCms Experts
Peter Sreckovic
An der Wachsfabrik 13
50996 Koeln, DE
Tel: +49 (0)2236 3826-0
Fax: +49 (0)2236 3826-20
Email: info@alkacon.com
http://www.alkacon.com
http://www.opencms.org

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

The new OAMP GeoMap Module from Alkacon Software makes it easy to create a full-featured KML-ready Google Maps Widget in OpenCms without knowledge of HTML. Highly configurable regarding map size or type and zoom level and fits seamlessly in the website's template. Applicable, wherever locations or directions should be visualized.

Cologne, NRW -- (SBWIRE) -- 02/23/2011 -- The new OAMP GeoMap Module, which is available now for download from alkacon.com, adds a full-featured and highly customizable Google map widget to an existing OpenCms installation without knowledge of HTML.

The complete configuration is done in just one file. Multiple Locations can be selected by address or GPS-like coordinates. The interactive graphical user interface makes it easy to resize the map or change the zoom level or map type.

The OAMP GeoMap Module supports the KML file-format for Google maps. Existing KML data can be loaded from OpenCms' virtual file system or via URI from a remote server.

Application possibilities reach from holiday blogs, event promotion to a business site's contact information.

The automatically generated map integrates seamlessly in the individual corporate site template.

The module is available with full source code and documentation.

All Alkacon OAMP modules are released as full Open Source under the GNU GPL version 3. The source code of the modules is freely available in the public CVS of cvs.opencms.org.

OpenCms is a complete and powerful open source web content management system. OpenCms provides powerful features especially suited for medium and large enterprise internet or intranet applications.

OpenCms is based on Java and XML technology. It can be deployed in an open source environment (e.g. Linux, Apache, Tomcat, MySQL) as well as on commercial components (e.g. Windows NT, IIS, BEA Weblogic, Oracle).

As true open source software, OpenCms is free of licensing costs.

About Alkacon Software GmbH
Alkacon Software GmbH provides its customers with support, training and consulting services for OpenCms. Alkacon Software GmbH is dedicated to developing first class products and solutions for OpenCms installations. Alkacon Software GmbH is the official maintainer and the major contributor for OpenCms.

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Alkacon Software GmbH - The OpenCms Experts
Peter Sreckovic
An der Wachsfabrik 13
50996 Koeln, DE

Tel: +49 (0)2236 3826-0
Fax: +49 (0)2236 3826-20
Email: info@alkacon.com

http://www.alkacon.com
http://www.opencms.org

http://www.alkacon.com/en/news/110215-alkacon-oamp-geomap.html

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

OpenCms Days 2011 - Conference and Expo "The OpenCms 8 User Experience" from May 09 to May 10, 2011 in Cologne, Germany

Cologne, NRW -- (SBWIRE) -- 01/24/2011 -- The OpenCms 8 User Experience

OpenCms Days 2011 will take place from Monday, May 09 to Tuesday, May 10, 2011 in Cologne, Germany.

OpenCms 8 will bring a major update of the content manager user interface. The new Advanced Direct Edit feature will allow content managers to create, modify and publish new pages directly with drag & drop on their web pages, making OpenCms much more user friendly.

The final version of OpenCms 8 will be made available for public download on the first day of the conference. A release candidate version of OpenCms 8 will be downloadable earlier.

The conference will provide a unique opportunity to learn about the new features of OpenCms 8 directly from the developers.

OpenCms Days 2011 conference will feature 2 parallel tracks with Showcase and Workshop sessions:

* Showcase track sessions will present a variety of OpenCms show cases and best practices from OpenCms projects all over the world.

* Workshop sessions for developers provide in-depth, hands-on presentations and workshops about the new technical features in OpenCms 8.

At the OpenCms Days 2011 conference expo, OpenCms solution providers will exhibit their OpenCms business solutions and enhancements.

OpenCms Days 2011 is targeted towards an international audience. The language spoken at the event is English, and all presentations will be held in English language.

Registration price:

Early bird registration (by March 15): 180,- Euro

Normal registration (after March 15): 200,- Euro

The full program and list of speakers will be available March 16, 2011 from the conference website at http://www.opencms-days.org

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Alkacon OAMP series is getting refreshed. Version 1.0.3 of the OAMP Comments module allows to add highly configurable blog like comment options to all template based pages in OpenCms.

Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia -- (SBWIRE) -- 01/24/2011 -- The Alkacon OAMP Comments Module Version 1.0.3, which is available now for download from alkacon.com, allows to add highly configurable blog like comment options to all template based pages in OpenCms.

The OAMP Comments module with its highly configurable form fields allows to create guestbooks or simple discussion boards - even with moderation option. The configurable security levels meet all needs from 'open' comments to 'closed groups' with login required.

'Direct Edit' administration and the AJAX based code generation make it easy to use.

All Alkacon OAMP modules are released as full Open Source under the GNU GPL version 3. The source code of the modules is freely available in the public CVS of cvs.opencms.org.

Download:
http://www.alkacon.com/en/modules/downloads/alkacon_oamp_comments_1.0.3.html

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