Alkacon OCEE for OpenCms is a commercial extension for OpenCms that offers Support for LDAP, Clustering, Replication and improved performance. Full information about OCEE is available on the Alkacon website.
The latest OCEE release version 2.1.4 is an important update that comes with several new functions and improvements and fixes a few issues that persisted in the last release.
New features and improvements in OCEE 2.1.4 for OpenCms 7
- Significantly improved OCEE Accelerator with new caching strategy that can reduce database requests by millions per day.
- Improved OCEE LDAP Connector now features support for nested groups when using Microsoft Active Directory.
- Improved OCEE Cluster Manager now supports installation and updating of modules within the cluster with shell commands.
- Improved OCEE Replicator with better error handling in user replication scenarios.
- Added option to write additional info values in the LDAP repository to the OCEE LDAP Connector.
- Added deterministic id generation for LDAP groups/users to the OCEE LDAP Connector.
- Fixed an issue in the OCEE Cluster Manager with export points not correctly being generated on remote servers.
- Fixed an issue in the OCEE Accelerator with caching of non-existent resources in the offline project that caused errors in certain scenarios.
- Fixed an issue in the OCEE Replicator where the resource id from the online project was used for replication.
- Fixed an issue in the OCEE LDAP Connector where updating group membership on LDAP users triggered a clear cache event.
Changes in OCEE 1.0.20 for OpenCms 6
- Fixed an issue in the OCEE Replicator where the resource id from the online project was used for replication.
Please see the OCEE release notes for a full descriptions about the new features and changes in this version.
Main features in OCEE 2
- Support for multi-staging scenarios with the OCEE Replicator: You can configure a "development" server that first pushes all generated content to a "staging" server e.g. for approval, and then afterwards to the "delivery" server. This is freely configurable, and there is no limit on the number of stages.
- Centralized configuration of servers with the OCEE Cluster: You can now edit the scheduled jobs, search index configuration and module parameters for all individual servers in the cluster from a common GUI in the workplace server.
- Support for OpenCms OUs in the LDAP Connector: It is now possible to connect each OpenCms OU with an individual path in the LDAP Server.
- Improved performance with the OCEE Accelerator: A much improved cache policy in the Accelerator now selectively flushes only certain cached items after a publish instead of just flushing everything.
About Alkacon OCEE
The Alkacon OpenCms Enterprise Extensions (also called OCEE) are a commercial extension for OpenCms. Alkacon OCEE adds features to OpenCms that are often required for running OpenCms in a medium or large Enterprise, where data consistency, security and failover are highly important.
The Alkacon OpenCms Enterprise Extensions are available as a licensed software product from Alkacon Software GmbH, the company responsible for most of the development of the open source core OpenCms system. Please click here for the full license terms.
OCEE is installed on a standard OpenCms system. OCEE is a binary only distribution. This means that the source code for the OCEE modules is not available. To use any of the Alkacon OCEE packages, you need to enter a license key that will be provided by Alkacon software after your purchase of an Alkacon OCEE license.
