Jahia is a applicatif waiter fulfilling the functions of gate of company, of waiter of management of documents, waiter of management of activity, Search engine and collaborative continuation.
Presentation
It is based on the language Java and is distributed under collaborative license (concept of " to contribute or payer").
La Community version is distributed under a specific license JSSL whereas commercial release has a license JCDDL.
Operation
The heart even of Jahia rests on a waiter of
content management for company, using the
Framework S and technologies Open most known source: persistence via
Hibernate, User interface using AJAX, import/export XML compatible with the standard JSR 170, using the search engine
Lucene placed at the disposal by Apache, respecting the standards of
Portlet S
JSR 168, using a waiter of mask, and supporting the management of the Metadata
Dublin Core.
Functionalities
Jahia places at the disposal of the users a system of edition and contribution in simple and intuitive line (directly in face office), a complete support multi-language for the contents and the interface.
Jahia also has on the level of its operation a system of treatment of the Workflow S and activities, a multisite management with support of the clustering, places at the disposal a great number of portlets ready with use (discussion forum, calendar, etc), supports SSO with a connection LDAP or Active Directory, and has a powerful waiter of management of the mask to optimize the performances under strong load.
Integration
Because of its many assets and from its panel of functionalities,
Jahia suffers from a certain complexity in its configuration on waiter from production (in particular under
Websphere of IBM) and in its implementation.
Some specialized software firms proposes to carry out the complete integration of Jahia within Intranet S or Extranet S of company, among which one finds Smile, Atos Origin or Unilog.