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Escenic Content Engine 5.1-1 released

Tuesday 16. February 2010 - Escenic is pleased to announce that Escenic Content Engine 5.1-1 is now available for download at Escenic Technet. This release adds support for upgrading from Escenic Content Engine 4, a plug.in API for making extensions to Escenic Content Studio, and more than 140 other enhancements and improvements. As always, this is a free upgrade covered by the standard Escenic support and maintenenace license.

Support for upgrading and migration from Escenic Content Engine 4
This release adds support for upgrading from Escenic Content Engine 4 to 5.1-1. The new Migrator plug-in exports all content from the 4 installation to XML, which is then imported into Escenic Content Engine 5.1-1 using the standard import functionality. This approach makes it possible to “tidy up” old content, transforming it into well-formed XML.

The Migrator plugin supports delta exports, alowing for two separate installations (both on version 4 and 5) to be kept in sync during testing and tuning. The plug-in includes a web interface that you can use to control the export process.

Customers may also take the opportunity to adjust the existing content types to fit with the Escenic Widget Framework, allowing Content Studio users to manage the design and layout of the website directly in Content Studio without making changes to the JSP or CSS.

Plug-in API for Escenic Content Studio
There is now an officially-supported interface that can be used by plug-ins to add new features to Escenic Content Studio.