Hippo Releases CMS version 7.1 and New Hippo Site Toolkit

Hippo has released Hippo CMS version 7.1 and the new Hippo Site Toolkit (HST). HST introduces a quick and low cost way to deliver Hippo CMS 7.1 to the web, offering a fast integration track with a variety of web front-ends and existing applications. With the new HST, Hippo aims to pair rapid and flexible web development with control and oversight, manageability and security. Under the hood, both products stay close to their roots of The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) projects they are built on. By developing the HST as a standalone product, the content and business logic are separated from a presentation layer. Each layer is based on standards, such as the Java Content Repository specification (JSR-170). To speed up the implementation process, HST and Hippo CMS are designed to work together out-of-the-box with Apache Jetspeed Portal 2.2, within the same security model. New features in HST/CMS 7.1 include: Portal integration JSR 168/286, optimized for recently released Apache Jetspeed 2.2. HST website components run transparently in the Portal as native portlets; Faceted browsing of the content structures in the CMS give users their own views for navigation and use; and Web framework independence, with support for JSP, Wicket and advanced support for Spring MVC and others. http://www.onehippo.com