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7 Mir is an Open-Source java servlet based content managment system, designed to
8 run an indymedia(type) website. Besides powering several indymedia sites, a
9 number of progessive organizations use Mir customized for their own needs. Mir
10 aims to provide sophisticated functionality, for example, complete
11 multi-lingual content production, editing, administration, and presentation,
12 while retaining the ability to be run on less than top of the line hardware
13 through extensive static caching.
15 Mir uses technologies such as Apache Tomcat and the Freemarker template engine.
17 more info at: http://mir.indymedia.org
19 development and general questions/discussion happens on the mir-coders mailing
20 list: mir-coders at lists.indymedia.org
22 for archives or to subscribe:
24 http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mir-coders
26 mailing list for cvs commits:
28 http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/Mir-cvs
33 Mir is licensed under the GNU GPL.
38 * Static publishing: Mir produces static HTML files for easy mirroring and so
39 that the site can be viewed without creating a high load on servers. No fancy
40 caching mechanisms are necessary. The presentation and production are
41 completely independent from each other.
42 * Very configurable (see the config.properties file)
43 * Written in Java using standard servlet API and popular tools like those from
44 the Apache Jakarta project (http://jakarta.apache.org)
45 * Uses the Freemarker template engine to allow easy modification of
46 site design without programming knowledge.
47 * Structured Object oriented 4 layer design. Servlet modules, Entity/Database
48 (the persistance layer), Media handlers (an abstraction layer for
49 manipulating different media formats) and the Producer layer (for creating
50 the static html pages). see doc/CODESTRUCTURE for more details.
51 * The persistance layer uses the poolman package for caching Database
53 * Entity object caching is integrated into the persistance layer.
54 * Meta-data/Database schema and classification based on the Dublic Core
55 standard. Media folders, topics, features.
56 * supports displaying the dynamic part of the site in multiple languages using
57 the Java Locale/language bundle standard (.properties files). Bundles exist
58 for spanish, english, dutch, quechua, turkish, german and aymara. The
59 upcoming 1.1 version (in CVS) supports producing the static site in several
61 * Media abstraction layer to cleanly and easily handle/add different Media
62 formats like mp3, realmedia, video, etc.. uses mime-types to map to the
64 * Supports categorization into topics and media folders (eg. different folders
65 for different events), features, breaking news, newswire, etc..
66 * Production of xml RDF syndication. e.g for the indymedia global newswire.
67 * Powerful and rich admin/editor interface with features like the ability to
68 change the event date of an article, multiple ways to search.. help and much
70 * Ability to edit some static site files such as CSS, html include files
71 through a basic web based text editor.
72 * Filtering of uploaded articles to remove unwanted HTML tags.
73 * Can output articles into PDF (upcoming 1.1 version has better text wrapping
75 * Search via HTdig index of static files. (upcoming 1.1 CVS version uses
76 integrated Jakarta Lucene for indexing the static files.)
77 * Automatic thumbnail generation using Java Advanced Imaging (JAI). (1.1 will
80 In the upcoming 1.1 release
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83 * completely rewrite of the producer layer. Runs in it's own thread.
84 Configurable via an XML file to dynamically choose the structure the site
85 should take, what should be archived...
86 * Introduction of the Localization infracstructure to allow easy low-level