About

The Accessible and Personalised Local Authority Website System, APLAWS, was designed as part of a national drive to enable local governments in the U.K. to deliver services online. It was incorporated into the Local Authority Websites National Project, and between 2003 and 2005 the base system and the various website extensions were improved considerably. Currently the project is in a vivid development to adapt to recent developments in the technology of Web applications and the development of small, mobile devices.

Aplaws is based on a solid framework for a secure web service, the open source Collaboration and Content Management System (CCM). It provides a set of tools for managing WEB based collaboration and website content based on the Java Enterprise framework. It was developed from the ArsDigita Community System (ACS) that was initiated at MIT by Philip Greenspun, who, together with several MIT colleagues, founded the company ArsDigita. ArsDigita was later acquired by Red Hat, and ACS was developed into the Red Hat CCM.

Currently, we are in the process to release the next generation of APLAWS+. Besides a lot of technical improvements you will find among others a new advanced theme engine which improves the user experience and makes it easier for designer and administrators to provide a vivid web site design.

The APLAWS project used to host the source code repository on fedorahosted.org. Unfortunately, the Fedora project decided to close the site in favor of pagure.io. Consequently, some technical issues have developed and our team at APLAWS are still in the process of deciding where to host the source code and developer documentation. Currently there is no publicly available source code.