• Technical Overview
  • Overview
    • What is Jahia?
    • The closer View
    • Technical Requirements
    • Everything is Content, whatever the type or source
      • Integrator and Developer Customization
    • Integrated technologies
    • Architecture Overview
    • Modules
    • Jahia's Different Actors
  • Web Layers
    • Content Flows
    • Templates and Views
    • The Jahia Template Studio
      • Page templates
      • Content Templates
    • REST API
      • Actions
      • Example : native iPhone/iPad application
    • Mobile Rendering
    • Macros
    • Filters
  • Back-end Layer
    • Workflow
    • JBoss Drools and event listeners
    • File Repository
    • Searching and Indexing
      • Full text queries using search tag librairies
      • Query Languages
    • Enterprise Jahia Tool - Authentication and Authorization
    • Import / Export
    • Enterprise Jahia Tool - Distant Server Publications
    • Portlets
      • Portlets vs. Modules
  • Enterprise Jahia Tool - Optimizing deployment and performance
  • Additional Resources

What is Jahia?

Jahia can be many things to many people. Most projects will use it as a Web Content Management (WCM) solution, or whatever the moniker is at the time of reading, while others will use it as a portal server, a web integration platform, or even a full-fledged content integration solution.

What Jahia really is, is software listening to HTTP requests with the ability to produce responses using HTML, any markup or even binary data that users might need. In its core, it uses a content repository to store and retrieve content, as well as multiple ways of deploying custom logic to operate on the content or to interface with third party systems. That’s the million-mile view of Jahia, and should give you a good idea of the flexibility of the system.