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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

Summary


In this chapter, we toured the entire OpenCms Workplace, examining the explorer view for managing content, the administration view for managing OpenCms, and the workflow view for managing tasks. We wrapped up by looking at the OpenCms module system.

At this time, you should have a good idea of how to use and manage OpenCms. From here, we will begin looking at developing templates and JSP pages, controlling the cache, and using custom data sources.