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The Web CMS Report 2008 looks at... Content Server's Web Services API

"Java APIs are also exposed as Web Services, with SOAP bindings and WSDL files automatically configured. Like other vendors, however, results in the field using these new APIs have been mixed at best. For one thing, the WSDL files point to JSP pages (so that FatWire can access its tag library) and not actual Java APIs. This limits substantially what you can do and brooks performance problems as well..."

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FatWire Supports MySQL (sort of)

14-Apr-2003

The open-source "MySQL" database is extremely popular. It powers the site you're reading now. Until recently, however, not that many CMS vendors supported it. Of course, MySQL has its limitations: it's not transactional and isn't optimized for rapid updating. However, it supports very fast "reads," which makes it great for publishing high-traffic dynamic sites where there aren't a lot of content contributors to compete for server resources. FatWire just announced support for MySQL in its lower-end "Spark" product which serves as a CMS back-end to various Java Portal products (like Sun ONE). Nonetheless, MySQL support presents an architectural dilemma for other CMS vendors who rely on native tools within commercial RDBMSs to conduct basic repository services like roll-back -- tools that don't exist (yet, if ever) in MySQL...
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- Submitted by: Tony Byrne, Analyst

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