MeshCMS is an online editing system written in Java. It provides a set of features usually included in a CMS, but it uses a more traditional approach: pages are stored in regular HTML files and all additional features are file-based, without needing a database.

MeshCMS has been thought as a quick tool to edit pages online, manage files and create some common components like menus, breadcrumbs, mail forms, image galleries and so on. It requires few resources: the default 64MB heap is enough to host a dozen of sites.

Main features are:

The English part of my blog is mainly technical. If you can read Italian, check the Italian section for articles of other kind.

To better evaluate what MeshCMS can do, take a look at some sites powered by it. Sites are ordered randomly and the order is refreshed every 4 hours.

If you have a website that uses MeshCMS and want to list it here, drop me a line with the URL. I won't list sites without owner's permission, so if you want to see more examples, just search the web for "meshcms".

MeshCMS requires an application server compatible with the Servlet 2.3 and JSP 1.2 specifications. Some examples of such a server are Tomcat and Jetty.

Pages can be edited with Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or higher, Firefox and Opera 9, with JavaScript and cookies enabled. Other browsers might be compatible, but are not tested. Note that you might need to allow popups from the site being edited, otherwise you won't be able to use the File Browser from within the editor.

Click on the image below to get the latest version of MeshCMS (download provided by SourceForge):