Description and features

jLibrary is a CMS engine oriented to personal and enterprise uses. The variety of functions and possibilities makes jLibrar a very flexible system that can almost be used for any information management purpose. In the following listing you can find some of its most notable features:

 

• Support for local and remote repositories : With jLibrary you can use the embedded repository server and create your local repositories or use the bundled server that allows remote connections from other hosts. Commonly a normal user will use the first option and an enterprise uses will use the second option.
  
• Interoperability: jLibrary server is web services based, so you can access to the core services from any language and from any platform. Currently, the unique client is developed under Java, but there is no restriction to develop other clients like for example could be a .NET application.
  
• Categorization: jLibrary supports categories and subcategories, so you can catalogue more easily your information or the information of your enterprise.
  
• Relationships: jLibrary is oriented to be an intelligent CMS. So you can establish relationships between the documents. This relationships pondered with the importance of the documents can be a quality metric for the information presented to the users. jLibrary even has a visual relationships browser from you can navigate between the different related media.
  
• Favorites: Every jLibrary user can define their favorites in each repositories. Favorites can be very important when generating content from a repository.
  
• Document metadata : You can define several metadata items over the different media. Examples are description, author, importance, etc.
  
• Annotations: Are you tired of not remembering where are that book that had that interesting passage ? Well, jLibrary proposes you a solution. Create a virtual document and add notes to it. Later you can search for term and jLibrary automatically search in media object annotations.
  
• Resources management : In jLibrary a media object can have associated different resources. For example, an HTML document could have attached images, audio, cascade sheets or scripts as resources. jLibrary repositories store all this information.
  
• Repository import/export: With jLibrary you can save your repository content to XML and restore it later. XML allows processing of the repository content without using jLibrary API. Import/export allow easy sharing of repositories between users and organizations.
  
• Search: In jLibrary you can search over one or multiple repositories by keywords or by content. jLibrary automatically performs the search over all the media objects, resources and annotations.
  
• Web browsing: With jLibrary you have your system browser integrated within the application so you can browse over your favorite web content. jLibrary also has support for bookmarks and historial.
  
• Web spidering: But web browsing won't be very useful for if only. With jLibrary you can grab all the content of your favorite pages and add it to your repository in an automatic way. Do you imagine extract all the content of a tutorials page and have it stored and indexed in a few moments ? With jLibrary you can do it !
  

-martin