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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
• Clustering without hardware load balancing

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
• Other Overview Guides

• OpenCms Reference Sites

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

• User Management
  • How to create a restricted area on your homepage

• Backing up OpenCms

• Security
  • Authentication per Page
  • Https/SSL

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

• Development Environment Setup
  • Synchronizing with Ant

File:Icon.gif Help

• OpenCms Website
• Official Mailing List Archives
• Mailing List Archive at Nabble.com (Good search function and threaded display)
• Managing and Customizing OpenCMS 6 A book about OpenCms administration and usage

Forums

• OpenCms Forum
• German OpenCms forum
• another forum on OpenCms

Additional sites with OpenCms dokumentation:

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

• Development tips
  • Eclipse integration
  • Ftpd module
  • Synchronization with external directories

• Hints & tips

File:Icon.gif Extending OpenCms

• Advanced Customization
  • Advanced module config
  • Action classes
  • Custom File and Folder Types

• Admin Tools
  • Adding Admin Tools

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

• Advanced development topics
  • core stuff
  • event handling

• Common HowTos
  • RSS

File:Icon.gif The future development of OpenCms

• Wishlist
• Development Roadmap