XMAX versus XMetal

I was at a meeting with Just Systems today. Just Systems is a content management software company. There most popular product is XMetal (a content management software product). Today's meeting was about a new product they have called XMAX. Basically, this is an lightware version of XMetal. It's got some of the same capabilities as XMetal as far as providing an XML editing component. The cool thing about this new content management product is how it can be customized and embedded into any container or holder that an organization may already have set up for their document needs.

At it's core, XMAX simply looks like a basic window and does have a few buttons that switch views and allows importing and exporting; beyond that, it's not really a full user interface we think of today. It's slim and serves as an editor window via using Active X. This setup makes it easy and natural, as if opening a notepad file, editing the structured content within, then embedding or integrating that augmented content into whatever container you have (such as anything created in Java or HTML).

All in all, XMAX seems intuitive and slick, seeming allowing you to update your content on the fly through this app, and then having that content fit into a web site, for example. USA Today uses XMAX on a regular basis; go to anyone of their entertainment web pages to see it in action.