basicPortal CMSTMis an Enterprise Information Portal (EIP) based entirely on open source software technology that enables users to develop standard and inexpensive, cross-platform web applications that are dynamic, flexible, and very fast.

The professional version of basicPortal CMSTM includes a content management system (CMS) for creating web portals with dynamic, data-driven content. The enterprise version provides additional tools for creating commercial web portals, and includes fully-functional portlets for eCommerce (e.g. shopping cart, credit card processing), lead tracking, forums, eMail, Internet newsgroups, content syndication, and file uploads/downloads (including images and blob).

In addition, basicPortal CMSTM open standard support makes it easy for developers to build their own advanced portlets, web applications, and web services, and readily find support within a large community of experts.

basicPortal CMSTM was engineered using the best practices in Java software design, such as J2EE container managed security, Model-View-Controller architecture (MVC 2), JavaBeans, JavaServer Pages (JSP), data access objects (DAO), the JSP Standard Tag Library (JSTL), caching and more. It also demonstrates accepted best practices in web Graphical User Interface (GUI) development using standards such as Cascading Style Sheet (CSS), Struts Tiles, and Layout.

Features:

• Based on Struts application framework
• Runs on top of any J2EE application server, including Websphere, Weblogic, Oracle IAS, Borland, Novell exteNd, Tomcat, Resin and Orion.
• Packaged with iBatis SQL database layer for object-relational mapping/SQL DB servers (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, etc.), but can store dynamic content in any database.
• Supports multi-row display tag, multi CRUD and user events.
• Combines best features of Expresso and Scaffolding.
• Working and configured Jasper Reports.
• Content management system contains sample HTML and XML data to build on.
• Flash Action Script forms for rich client user interface.
• DAO interface and database Layer implementation.
• Contains member sign up and administration facilities (user login, roles, etc.).
• Master/Detail processing.
• Supports Internationalization (i18n) which means the application (e.g. menus, currency formats, dialog boxes) can be adapted to various language and regions without changing the core software.
• Uses standard J2EE data source and JDBC Realms for user security.
• Supports RIA+SOA.
• Includes a training tape, sample modules, and a developers book to help users customize the application.

Licensing:

basicPortal CMSTM integrates industry leading software tools to create a powerful and highly flexible EIP system that can be deployed at a fraction of the cost of comparable systems from IBM, BEA, and Microsoft. How? Pricing is standard - you pay only a per site license fee. There are no per CPU costs, no per user fees, and no separate charges for developer and production versions.