Grails CMSs join forces

September, 23rd 2009

Grails CMSs join forces

So far, there are 3 independent plugins that provide content management functionality for Grails:

- Weceem Plugin
- Simple CMS Plugin
- Content Manager Plugin

Over the last couple of weeks, the developers and committers of all 3 plugins have come together and decided to join forces and create a single "unified" plugin for content management in Grails with additional plugins based on the same core.

The new Weceem plugin is based on the existing Weceem software, but will extend and change the system so that we have a great foundation for the unification of the different plugins and future development.

We are going to provide core functionality from all 3 systems in one plugin and add documentation or scripts for the migration to transfer existing websites into the new plugin.

In the next weeks, we will release Weceem 0.3, which will have the core concepts implemented, that are needed for the integration. The following release will have the amin functionality from the 3 plugins integrated, included a sophisticated menu system, complete support for Blogs and Wikis and more.

We believe that this is an important step for the Grails community and we hope that this will increase the adoption of a "unified" Grails CMS.

Feel free to join the growing community or jump right into development:

- download and checkout the current development (http://www.weceem.org/)
- ask questions in our forum (http://forums.jcatalog.com/)
- check tickets, bugs and feature requests (http://jira.jcatalog.com/)

Best Regards,

Stephan Albers,  http://www.jcatalog.com
Scott Burch,  http://www.smartwebsystems.biz
David Cherry,  http://www.thecoderscorner.com
Viktor Fedorov,  http://www.jcatalog.com
Marc Palmer,  http://www.anyware.co.uk

http://www.weceem.org