I am looking for something similar to the drupal CCK, but in Java (in a Java CMS)?

Question

I have been using drupal, but I am constantly hitting its limitations. the drupal CCK (and associated modules) is a cool module in Drupal which allow you to specify new "content types" and add fields to them such as Images, text, check-boxes. Drupal then generates pages to add/edit and display these content types on the web. Obviously the benefit of this, is that the developer can specify a content type and leave all the forms/validation, database back-end/SQL, user permissions, and web display output to drupal.

I am guessing that lots of CMS systems support user definable content types, which are then rendered using form processing, editing and templates/blocks for display - however the list of Java CMS on wikipedia and java-source.net; http://java-source.net/open-source/content-managment-systems

but there are many more than I could hope to meaningfully review, so I am hoping someone could suggest any RAD tools for java CMS, and prototyping custom "content types"

Thanks,

Tom

ps some of the Java CMS systems that I am looking into are; onehippo.com/en/ondemand/hippo-service liferay.net/web/guest/home alfresco.com

Answer 1

Liferay has custom attributes that seem to do the same thing as CCK, though they were created to enhance user profiles they can also be attached to any stored item acccording to the description here.

Answer 2

After some more research, the concept that I appear to be talking about is EAV - or entity attribute values