Hippo CMS


Bloomreach Experience Manager - Developer Edition, formerly known as Hippo CMS is an open-source, dual licensed, Content Management System.

Architecture

There are three components to Bloomreach Experience Manager:

Delivery Tier

The Hippo Site Toolkit is the presentation framework, using either JSP or FreeMarker to generate pages. Alternatively, a REST API can be defined to serve structured content.

Interface

The user interface through which the content management and administrative functionalities can be used.

Content Repository

All content, metadata and configuration is stored in a modified version of Apache Jackrabbit.

License

Bloomreach Experience Manager - Developer Edition is available under the ASL 2.0. Some modules are only available under a commercial license.

Acquisition

In October 2016, Hippo CMS was acquired by BloomReach, an e-commerce personalization company.