WebMag Content Management System

CoveComm publishes Clarion Magazine, a subscription-based online magazine for software developers who use the Clarion language. Founded in 1999, Clarion Magazine is delivered using CoveComm's in-house content management system, called WebMag. WebMag is a combination of server-side Java (developed using Eclipse), a MySQL database, and a Clarion administration application.

WebMag is a web application; that is, it runs on a server (Resin, in this case), receives page requests, and returns output in the form of web pages. WebMag uses Java Server Pages (JSP) to present those web pages to the user. JSP is an excellent technology for this kind of application because it marries the power of Java with the presentation of HTML. Unfortunately, JSPs often become code-heavy and difficult to manage. WebMag carefully separates the business logic (the Model) from the HTML presentation layer (the View) using a Model/View/Controller, or Model 2, architecture. Incoming requests are handed off to a controller, which then determines which business logic (in the Model) needs to be executed. The Model returns a set of objects which are passed to the JSPs (the View). The JSPs are then rendered into the page the user sees.

WebMag's features include:

• Access control
• Blogging
• MySQL back end
• Form handling
• Surveys
• Online store
• Reader comments
• Email merge
• RSS feeds
• E-book sales
• Print book sales & fulfillment
• Topical index
• Podcast delivery
• Ad management
• Lucene search engine
• Royalty tracking

For more information on WebMag contact Dave Harms.

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