Cross Platform and Open Source - dotCMS has been built using the category-leading technologies that guide modern enterprise and J2ee development. These technologies are all widely adopted and actively developed standards and patterns. With the release of 1.9, we have continued to build towards our philosophy that creating and managing enterprise web sites should not be a difficult process. This ease of use, coupled with our J2EE enterprise stack makes even complex integrations surprisingly painless. What takes weeks in other systems takes days or even hours in ours.

Development

The Velocity and embedded scripting languages makes dotCMS easy to extend and build upon. For plugin or deeper integrations, we recommend the amazing Eclipse IDE as our development platform.

Database Independent

Because dotCMS uses Hibernate to abstract all data access, the resulting code is extremely portable across databases. Databases that dotCMS currently supports include: