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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

Class Structure


This section provides an overview of the organization of the OpenCms packages. Developers will find this a useful introduction to the class structure of OpenCms.

The package structure for OpenCms follows the standard Java convention. Since the code was written before Alkacon acquired the opencms.org domain, they used com.opencms even though the product is maintained by the open source community. For OpenCms 6.0, many of the packages will be moved to an org.opencms package.

Most of the functionality that you, as a developer, will require for developing modules and JSPs is present in the flex.jsp, file, defaults, and core packages.