Escenic Content Engine 5.2.0 released

Escenic is pleased to announce that Escenic Content Engine 5.2.0 is now available for download at Escenic Technet.

Highlights in this release

RESTful web service API and Atom-based data wire format
Escenic Content Engine 5 now supported on Microsoft Windows Server
XHTML source editing allowed in Content Studio
Derived image representations: set the crop mask for several representations in a single operation.
Improved "rule of thirds"-based default image crop positioning
Content item source ID now shown in Content Studio
Content items added to a section page/inbox/list now indexed immediately
Groups no longer expanded when dropped
Content Studio "View keyboard shortcuts" dialog
Numerous performance and usability improvements, and minor bugfixes

RESTful web service API

Escenic Content Engine 5.2.0 includes a web service that can be used to integrate the Content Engine with other applications and web services. Client applications can communicate with the web service by means of a REST (Representational State Transfer) API. Escenic Content Engine's web service uses the Atom Publishing Protocol, and has the following characteristics:

All operations are performed using HTTP GET, PUT, POST and DELETE commands.
All resources provided by the web service are identified by URIs.
Given the initial URI of the web service, all the resources it can provide are then discoverable via hypertext links.

For detailed information, see the Escenic Content Engine Integration Guide