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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

Other Resources


At the beginning of the book, I speculated that the primary problem that any content management system encounters is the seemingly infinite number of organizational procedures that persons and groups use to manage their content. While I have tried, in this book as a whole, to address the common ground that most of us will share, I know that every implementation will diverge from this common ground in one way or another.

Since OpenCms is an open-source product with an international user base, the community built around the product is a fantastic resource, with new information being created every day. While I have mentioned these resources throughout this book, it seems fitting to note them here at the conclusion.

The OpenCms website is an obvious destination for official information on OpenCms. The official binary and sourcecode releases of OpenCms can be obtained from this site, as can a number of modules:

http://www.opencms.org/

The OpenCms developers list serves as a general...