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Building Websites with OpenCms

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Building Websites with OpenCms

Overview of this book

This book takes you through the process of creating content-rich websites and applications using OpenCms. Although powerful and flexible, OpenCms can be daunting on first approach, but its advanced features reward the investment in learning. This book exists to ease Java developers into getting the most from OpenCms. OpenCms OpenCms is a professional-level, open source Website Content Management System, with which you can create and manage complex websites. Based on Java and XML technology, it fits into almost any modern IT environment. With hard-won experience of the practical difficulties faced by developers working with OpenCms, this book is the embodiment of the author's expertise, and the perfect way to master the system.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
Building Websites with OpenCms
Credits
About the Author
Introduction

Prerequisites


OpenCms will need a configured database and a functioning servlet engine. We will use MySQL for the database and Tomcat for the servlet engine. Since OpenCms uses the ISO 8859-1 character set, I will explain how to configure Tomcat to use that character set as default. Additionally, I will cover the registry settings that Windows installations require.

To install these packages on Linux, you will need to be root unless your system administrator has configured your system in a way that you can install these packages a different way (such as using sudo).

In Windows 2000, you will need to install the software as the Administrator user.

Configuring the MySQL Database

MySQL (http://www.mysql.com) is an open-source relational database server maintained by MySQL AB. While OpenCms supports other databases, including Oracle and MS SQL Server, MySQL runs on Windows and Linux, is free, and is the database on which OpenCms developers work.

OpenCms 5.0 can use either the 3.23.x or the 4.0.x...