June 05, 2003
Nukes: the Open Source Java CMS.
For a while the folks at JBoss were running PostNuke. Beyond the expected questioning of why the web site for a Java application server was running on PHP, they found that some unfortunate design decisions meant that PostNuke didn't scale.
Ultimately, it didn't work with PHP, so we decided to pull the plug on the PHP web site and put all we had learned about system design for scalability in four years of J2EE in JBoss (including EJB) to the test. Could we port the Nukes engine to J2EE? We did just that.
Nukes was born.
If we had a chance in hell of using JBoss at work, I'd actually be excited about this. Instead we're almost certain to go with another application server, for better or worse, and I think we'll be stuck with its CMS. So instead I just read the article with interest.
