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Welcome to the OpenCms Wiki

OpenCms is a professional level Open Source Website Content Management System. You can find more information about OpenCms on the project homepage. The current version of OpenCms is 6.2.2.

File:Icon.gif Getting OpenCms Up and Running

• Installation
  • Hardware requirements
  • Finding and installing the prerequisites
  • Database Setup
  • App server related topics
  • Post-installation checkout

• Configuration
  • xml-system-configs explained
  • Creating a new site
  • Removing /opencms/opencms from site url
  • MultiSite configuration instructions
  • Securing the site - implementing your security policy
  • Removing OpenCMS documents and non-essential components - What to keep

• Performance Tuning
  • Load Balancing with Alkacon Clustering OCEE
  • Static Export configuration
  • Flex Cache tuning

File:Icon.gif What Can OpenCms Do

• Overview
  • OpenCms philosophy
  • OpenCms terminology
  • Introduction to the OpenCms application structure and tools
  • Alternative site structures
  • Planning and documenting your site
  • Best Practices

• Template Development
  • basics and overview
  • lessons learned
  • common and frequent mistakes, NPEs
  • oc-taglibrary specifics
  • Building from Scratch
  • Using existing Template One
  • Other example templates

• Search
  • Configuration
  • Sample search results pages
  • common mistakes
  • writing only specific xml-element-data to the lucene index
  • lucene related: writing custom analyzers, stemmers, documents

• Other Major Features
  • XMLContent

File:Icon.gif Using / Maintaining an installation of OpenCms

• Using the Workplace
  • Boy Howdy on this one. good luck.

• Workflow
  • anyone used this

• Admin Tools/Maintenance Tools
  • Project Management
  • Account Management
  • Database Management
  • Module Management
  • File History
  • Link Validation
  • Gallery Overview
  • Search Management
  • Scheduled Jobs Management
  • Flex Cache Administration
  • Content Tools
  • Workplace Tools

File:Icon.gif Writing Jsp and developing in OpenCms

• Jsp Basics
  • Basic Steps to writing JSPs
  • Including your template elements within your JSPs
  • Using Direct Edit with JSP
  • OpenCms features available via taglibs
  • OpenCms features javadoc
  • OpenCms downloadable sample modules
  • How Opencms Handles jsp - Advanced

• Development Process-Best Practices
  • Transferring an existing website to a different server

File:Icon.gif Help

• OpenCms Website
• OpenCms Forums
• Mailing List Archives
• Managing and Customizing OpenCMS 6 - the book

Additional sites with OpenCms dokumentation:

• an older Wiki about OpenCms
• OpenCms documentation project at sourceforge
• another forum on OpenCms
• German documentation for OpenCms Users
• another forum on OpenCms
• another forum in german

• Development tips
  • Eclipse integration
  • Ftpd module
  • That synch with external directory thing

• Hints & tips
• Wishlist

File:Icon.gif Extending OpenCms

• Advanced Customization
  • Advanced module config
  • Action classes

• Third Party Integration
  • spring
  • hibernate
  • struts
  • jbpm
  • mvnForum
  • other j2ee stuff
  • jmx

• Advanced development topics
  • core stuff
  • event handling

• Common HowTos
  • Anyone? Bueller? Bueller