Mir features
mh, 24.12.2002 03:02
List of features included in Mir as of 24.12.2002
* 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
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* 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 infracstructure to allow easy low-level
customization of Mir.
 e-mail:: mir-coders@lists.indymedia.org
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