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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

The Explorer View


Once you have logged back into the Workplace, you should be back in the explorer view. On the left-hand side is a file tree that shows all of the file folders in the Virtual File System (VFS):

The VFS is a file-system-like storage mechanism that looks and acts like a normal file system, but stores information inside tables in the database. For that reason, you will not be able to find any set of files on your regular file system that corresponds to the files in the VFS. Because the VFS looks and acts like a file system, VFS paths are expressed like URL- or UNIX-style paths. The root folder is /, and subsequent folders are noted by a name followed (optionally) by a slash. For instance, the location of the bodies folder in the image on the above is expressed by the path /system/bodies/.