Development Roadmap

Releases Schedule

• Version 8.0: Q4, 2010 (from Conference Opening Keynote, OpenCms Days Conference, June 15-16, 2009: [1])

Preliminary Plan for Version 8.0

based on Conference Opening Keynote, OpenCms Days Conference, May 15, 2009 and current development status:

OpenCms 8.0 will focus on content manager usability improvements:

• Introduction the “Advanced Direct Edit” (or ADE) mode
  • With ADE, Content managers will be able to do the most common tasks from the “Direct Edit” interface and not be required to use the workplace

• Improved Semantic Web Functionality
• Content subsription and tracking engine

OpenCms 8.0 optional planned core and API improvements: (Subject to change)

• JPA integration for g supporting multiple Databases
• Scripting language support
• Workflow integration
• Repository Standards compatibility

This version is expected to use JDK 6 or later.