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Create Once, Publish Everywhere!

May 19

One of the things that our customers love about Cloud CMS is that it lets them create content once and easily publish it to all of their mobile and web applications. It reduces the amount of work required to create fresh and interesting content and saves them time and money in the process.

Our goal is straightforward. We want to provide all of the things that small business owners need on the backend to give their users a seamless experience in creating, editing and publishing content. With Cloud CMS, you don’t have to build this stuff yourself or integrate it. It’s all there, ready to go from the moment you sign up.

We provide a complete collaborative suite of software including applications, forms, desktop integration and workflow. Business users can create content right away. You can define custom content types, lists and pages. And you can invite team members to work alongside you as content is moved from curation to publication.

Content API

Cloud CMS provides the first pure content API for cloud-connected applications. Our API (REST) is delivered over HTTPS and can easily be integrated into your iOS, Android and HTML5 applications.

We provide quick start projects to help you get on your way. We also provide clients for various platforms including Node.js, Android, Java and JavaScript.

Hosted Applications

Cloud CMS provides an web server tier that lets your business deploy hosted applications for dev, test, QA and production. You can run your application infrastructure this way, on the Cloud CMS hosted tier, or you can host on Heroku, Engine Yard and others. This hosting can consist the entire application or custom APIs specific to your apps.

Instant Preview

One of the truly unique and productive features of Cloud CMS is Instant Preview. With Cloud CMS, you can instantly preview any content changes that you’re working on in real-time, so as to see what those changes might look like if there were live. This lets your business users see changes as they might appear on iOS, Android, the web or a responsive mobile application – the same data formatted in many different ways for different devices.

We’re really excited about how Cloud CMS has grown. Over the past 3+ years, we’ve had a chance to dig in and build what our customers have asked for. We think you’ll find it to be a really exciting platform that is incredibly feature rich, low cost, and well-designed.

To learn more about Cloud CMS or request a trial, please visit our web site at http://www.cloudcms.com.

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Upgrade to version 1.0.6 of our new JavaScript/HTML5 driver!

Sep 30

The Cloud CMS team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the 1.0.6 version of the Gitana JavaScript Driver for Cloud CMS.

JavaScript Driver for Cloud CMS

The Gitana JavaScript Driver is a JS library that you can drop into your HTML5/JS applications to take advantage of the authoring and delivery APIs of the Cloud CMS server. It makes it easier for developers to utilize the Cloud CMS HTTP/REST APIs by providing native convenience functions via JavaScript.

The Gitana JavaScript Driver is ideal for use within either the browser or server-side JS environments (like Node.js). For a Node.js wrapped module, please check out: http://github.com/gitana/gitana-node-js.

What is Cloud CMS?

Cloud CMS is a cloud platform as a service for managing all of your business content - from formal business content like articles and news items to social content and interaction data coming from your applications. Cloud CMS puts all of your data into an innovative, high performance and scalable repository and gives your business powerful tools for collaboration, branching, merging and working with content with a secure and robust tools.

To learn more about Cloud CMS, please visit: http://www.cloudcms.com.

Release Highlights

This release includes a number of highlights, including bug fixes and new features, which are worth mentioning. A few of the more important elements are shown below. For an itemized list of code level changes, please check the commit history.

  • Retrieve lists of application types and project types
  • AppHelper method on connect now auto-loads project information (if a project is connected to the application stack)
  • The resolvePath method was added to let developers determine the path to a node from a given root
  • Added project copy and project transfer
  • Added platform update method
  • Content creation has much better support for path assignment (file name, file path and parent folder paths)
  • Refactor of listAuthenticationGrants so that it can be performed per-client and per-user
  • Support for connectivity to CloudCMS.net hosted application servers
  • Support for variable substitution in content creation paths (both in driver and server-side)

Installation

To use the gitana.js driver, simply include it into your HTML5 application either via a SCRIPT tag or as an AMD module. You can download both JS and minified versions below. In addition, if you are using Bower, you can install using bower install gitana.

We encourage our community to upgrade to this new release of the Gitana JavaScript driver. We encourage everyone to submit issues, pull requests or post questions to our project site at http://www.github.com/gitana/gitana-javascript-driver.

To learn more about the Gitana JavaScript Driver, please visit our open-source GitHub repository at http://www.github.com/gitana/gitana-javascript-driver.

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Download Version 1.0.3 of the Cloud CMS Java Driver

Jul 8

The Cloud CMS team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the 1.0.3 version of the Gitana Java Driver for Cloud CMS.

Java Driver for Cloud CMS

The Gitana Java Driver is a Java library that you can include with your Java applications to take advantage of a programmatic way of interacting with the Cloud CMS server. It makes it easier for developers to utilize Cloud CMS functionality without having to manually handle calls against HTTP/REST, data serialization and event handling.

The Gitana Java Driver is ideally installed via Maven. A public Cloud CMS maven repository is available for installing the driver: https://www.cloudcms.com/java.html

The Gitana Java Driver can be used within standalone Java apps, Spring applications or any other J2EE runtime. It can also be used within Android to power mobile apps.

What is Cloud CMS?

Cloud CMS is a cloud platform as a service for managing all of your business content - from formal business content like articles and news items to social content and interaction data coming from your applications. Cloud CMS puts all of your data into an innovative, high performance and scalable repository and gives your business powerful tools for collaboration, branching, merging and working with content with a secure and robust tools.

To learn more about Cloud CMS, please visit: http://www.cloudcms.com

Release Highlights

This release includes a number of highlights, including bug fixes and new features, which are worth mentioning. A few of the more important elements are shown below. For an itemized list of code level changes, please check the commit history.

  • Separation of methods for applying and updating features and changing node types
  • Additional methods to support server-side updates to clients and authentication grants
  • Improved support for OAuth2 refresh tokens
  • Updates to the latest Jackson 2 libraries and Google OAuth2 driver code
  • Added load tests (multi-threaded runners) for concurrency testing
  • Added identity policy support (new feature in Cloud CMS)
  • Added partial tree generation support (new feature in Cloud CMS)

We encourage our community to upgrade to this new release of the Gitana Java driver. We encourage everyone to submit issues, pull requests or post questions to our forums at http://www.cloudcms.org.

To learn more about the Gitana Java Driver, please visit our open-source GitHub repository athttp://github.com/gitana/gitana-java-driver.

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