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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

Managing the Module


For the most part, the tasks for managing a module do not differ substantially from the creation wizard we walked through in the beginning of this chapter. The Module management task in the administration view provides access to the module management software. The Module management screen lists all of the modules installed on the system. Just as with files in the explorer view, clicking on the module's icon brings up the popup navigation menu for that module.

In the popup menu, there are four entries: Administrate, Properties, Export, and Delete. Delete should be self-explanatory—executing it deletes the entire module, including content stored outside the module, but explicitly specified in the module's additionalresources (which we will return to later in this chapter). We will cover Export in the next section. In this section, though, we will cover the other two.

Administrate

Choosing the Administrate item will bring up a screen that ought to look familiar—it is identical...