Opening the way for CM

Refresh Software announces SiteRefresh 5, which is built upon the company’s Open Publishing System (OPS), a method for the secure and controlled retrieval of assets stored in the SiteRefresh Content Repository. OPS includes a series of source-code content retrieval objects that engage the repository's open/published RDBMS schema for non-proprietary API access. A customer's chosen publishing process continues to operate without re-engineering and can be used to generate content in Web, WAP, RSS and XML formats.

Refresh reports SiteRefresh Core Content Management delivers the essential content management capabilities, including easy-to-use browser-based authoring, templating, workflow, versioning and check-in/check-out with role-based permissions. SiteRefresh is offered as an online CMS Web service or deployed as licensed software that leverages existing IT infrastructure, databases and employee skill sets.

Enhancements in SiteRefresh V 5.0 include:

• three-tier architecture using industry standards and application servers;

• improved digital asset management capabilities;

• support for both an image and file repository as well as content asset-specific files and images;

• greater AssetType datafield validation;

• support for user-defined triggers performed on workflow transitions;

• originator notification and periodic review workflow settings;

• edition content can now be defined by either current or published versions; and

• easy migration from existing versions.

With a J2EE core developed in the Java offering, Refresh Software explains, the Open Publishing System provides interfaces, complete with source code, for Web publishing and delivery systems developed in any of the popular scripting languages, including ASP, ASP.NET, JSP, CFM, PHP, TCL and Perl.