DotCMS

dotCMS

Drag-and-drop content palette and visual editor in dotCMS
Developer(s)	dotCMS LLC
Initial release	1 January 2009;16 years ago (2009-01-01) [1]
Stable release	23.10.24 [2] / 2024-03-04 [±]
Repository	github.com/dotCMS/dotCMS
Written in	Java
Operating system	Unix-like, Windows
Platform	Cross-platform
Available in	Multilingual
Type	Content management system
License	GPLv3 or later [3]
Website	www.dotcms.com

dotCMS is an Universal content management system (CMS) written in Java for creating, managing, and delivering content and content driven sites and applications. ^{[4] [5]}

Architecture

• Java based
• API Based Content Store
• Hybrid-Headless CMS (API First CMS)
• Offers Business Source License (BSL)
• Elasticsearch for all Content and Documents - external as of 5.3.0 ^[6]
• Cloud ^[7] or On Premises ^[8]
• RESTful Content Searching and Access
• Remote & Static Publishing

Source Code

• Source Code available on GitHub

DotCMS Products

dotCMS provides a Business Source License (BSL) of their content management system that is free to download and use. ^[9] They also provide an Enterprise edition, which is a SaaS-based product, that you can purchase on an annual or monthly subscription. ^[9]

License

• dotCMS is dual licensed under the GNU General Public License v3 or as a Commercial license

References

1. Earliest tagged releases
2. "Changelogs dotCMS". dotcms.com. Retrieved 2024-03-13.
3. Licensing Options
4. dotCMS. "dotCMS | The Leading Universal CMS". dotCMS. Retrieved 2025-02-18.
5. dotCMS. "dotCMS | The Leading Universal CMS". dotCMS. Retrieved 2025-02-18.
6. "ChangeLogs".
7. Cloud Hosted CMS
8. On premises CMS
9. dotCMS. "Headless CMS Full Feature List". dotCMS Content Management System. Retrieved 2019-10-03.

External links

• Official website