Filesystem-based web content

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Filesystem-based web content

Hi,

I plan to pull my Java web apps's content from a filesystem, for the sake of simplicity of editing. These files will be most probably only a text in a simple markup like JTexy or Markdown.

What I plan to implement is a tree-like structure keeping the content of the files. It should be cached and eventually should handle authorization.

I am looking for a simple-to-use thing, not a full-blown CMS like OpenCMS, but if it provides a simple api to access the content and can keep it's dependencies small, the other stuff like thick client content editors is a bonus.

Perhaps something from this list: http://java-source.net/open-source/content-managment-systems

What would you recommend?

Thanks, Ondra

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Why not use a simple Apache webserver with a (f)cgi perl script to convert the markdown and a mod_proxy to cache the results.

Beeautiful in its simplicity!

Peter Tillemans 2010-06-23 06:23:30

I forgot to write - the content will be used in the web app. Do you suggest to do a local HTTP request from the web app?

Ondra Žižka 2010-06-24 08:55:32

For what I gather from your requirements you wont even need a web application. You can have static HTML pages in the apache server, use a markdown cgi script to render the pages coming from disk. For updating you can use a simple upload CGI (which come a dime a dozen) or some javascript and the mod_dav module of apache. This will allow you to focus on content and layout and not have a application server to draw attention away. I really like your concept : back to basics :-)

Peter Tillemans 2010-06-24 09:50:33

I'd love to have it that simple... but I already have the Java web app :) And it's quite dynamic... I look for a solution for static content - simple, yet thread-safe, mageable, searchable, scalable.

Ondra Žižka 2010-07-01 00:04:20

If you do not intend to reinvent wheels then you should probably use a CMS.

As you write OpenCms is a full-blown CMS", but it also should be "simple-to-use" in your context.

Andreas Kuckartz 2010-09-01 05:02:04

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