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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.

Getting OpenCms Up and Running

Installation

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

Configuration

• Important Configuration Files
• Importing Existing Data
• Defining OpenCMS structured XML content
• 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

Using / Maintaining an installation of OpenCms

• Backing up OpenCms

Using the Workplace

• Explorer view
• Administration view

Workflow

• Workflow in core OpenCms
• Workflow using third party workflow engines

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

Security

• Authentication per Page
• Https/SSL

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 documentation:

• an older Wiki about OpenCms
• OpenCms documentation project at sourceforge
• another forum on OpenCms
• German documentation for OpenCms Users
• Javadoc and browsable source code

Alkacon Opencms Documentation Modules

• v6.2.2

Development tips

• Eclipse integration
• Ftpd module
• Synchronization with external directories

Hints & tips

• .. todo ;) ...

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
• Localization

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
• Debugging

Extending OpenCms

Module Development

• Development Lifecycle
• Action classes
• Advanced module config

Advanced Customization

• Custom Login Page
• Custom File and Folder Types
• Custom Views
• Custom Widgets

Admin Tools

• Adding Admin Tools

Third Party Integration

• spring
• hibernate
• struts
• jbpm
• mvnForum
• other j2ee stuff
• jmx
• osworkflow

Advanced development topics

• core stuff
• event handling

Common HowTos

• RSS

The future development of OpenCms

• Wishlist
• Development Roadmap