In OpenCms, there are three ways of serving published content:
Serving statically from the OpenCms servlet
Serving dynamically from the OpenCms servlet
Exporting from OpenCms and serving from another web server
In this section, I will describe the first two cases, explaining the relative advantages of each. In the next section, I will discuss the option to statically export and serve the content from another server.
Up to this point, we have performed all of our tasks (except for logging in) as a system user of OpenCms. Most of our work has been conducted through the Workplace tool, and other than testing material, we have not done much with the public side of OpenCms.
By nature, the Workplace is dynamic. Files and folders are created, locked, edited, unlocked, and removed; templates are created and updated. In short, the CMS itself is in a state of flux. However, once resources are published, the published copies become static. Until another publish event...