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