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Technology proposal: onion.net

Bernd Burkert on 18 January 2014, 12 years ago

Please add onion.net to the CMS technology list.

The onion.net brand is registered in EU and US. The young product from Germany is aiming at midmarket projects and has been embraced by several (mostly multi-national) companies, with the strongest footprint in D-A-CH. It is sometimes used as a cost effective alternative to  clumsy strategic enterprise solutions, especially, when flexibility and time to web are key to the project's success.

Technically, onion.net is a decoupled CMS framework that relies on XML standards. The onion.net Information Server at the core of the system communicates via an API with the onion.net Editor and the onion.net Render Engine. This API is also one integration point to exchange data with third party software. A second integration point is the onion Render Engine itself, which can be connected to several data sources in order to aggregate information from these sources. The product offering also contains real-time integration for Microsoft SharePoint, and the e-Commerce software products of Intershop and hybris.   

Structured content can be modelled by XML schema, according to the individual requirements. The data persistence layer and a generic user interface are generated on-the-fly from the XML schema, enabling most agile projects with incremental development steps. The XML schema and the XSL rendering transformations are also handled within the onion.net Editor, which is the only tool needed for standard web projects. Concepts like referential integrity and strong typing keep the content (XML data) robust.

Highest performance of dynamic web pages is supported by intelligent multi-layer caching. The unique Enterprise ChangeSet technology of onion.net has been devised to prevent merging conflicts which might results from simultaneous editorial tasks. A lean and silo-free architecture lends to immediate responses in both directions, when corporate content is published to the web (or into other channels), and when user-generated content is presented to the content managers.

Cheers, Bernd

Sam Soltano (site administrator) on 18 January 2014, 12 years ago

Thank you very much for that proposal. We will examine that tool for inclusion in our surveys.

Sam Soltano (site administrator) on 31 March 2014, 11 years ago

You can find onion.net now in our CMS surveys.

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