Building Websites with OpenCms

Matt Butcher

• Editorial: Packt Publishing
• Año: 2004
• ISBN:
  9781904811046
• Edición: 1
• Categoría: Informatik
• Categoría: Informationstechnologie

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. 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. 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. This book was written for version 5.0 of OpenCms. Visit the Free Online Edition for Building Websites with OpenCms and learn more about the book, you can read through two full chapters, "The OpenCms Workplace", and "Creating an OpenCms Module" and discover what each chapter from this best selling book has in store. http://OpenCmsBook.PacktPub.com If you are a web developer new to OpenCms, or are an experienced OpenCms developer who is looking to get the most from the system, then this is the book for you. A working knowledge of Java, JSP, and XML is required to get the most from OpenCms, and from this book.

Building Websites with OpenCms

Matt Butcher

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Table of Contents

Building Websites withOpenCms

Credits

About the Author

Introduction

What This Book Covers

What You Need for Using This Book

Conventions

Reader Feedback

Customer Support

Downloading the Example Code for the Book

Errata

Questions

1. Introduction to OpenCms

What Is a Content Management System?

Three Essential Components

What Is OpenCms?

Features

History

The OpenCms Community

The Purpose of This Book

Technical Overview

The Web Server and Java Servlets

The Database

Pages, Templates, and Java Server Pages

Bringing it Together

Summary

2. Installing OpenCms

Prerequisites

Configuring the MySQL Database

MySQL on Linux

MySQL on Windows

Finishing the MySQL Setup

Configuring the Tomcat Servlet Engine

Linux Configuration

Windows Configuration

Configuring Encoding

Tuning the JVM

Installing the OpenCms WAR File

Configuring OpenCms to Use UTF-8

Running the Install Wizard

Advanced Setup Screens

Basic Setup Screens

Manually Configuring Settings

Configuring the Client

Mozilla-Based Browsers

Internet Explorer

Installation Troubleshooting

Character-Set Issues

Temp File Project ID Error

Restarting Tomcat versus Reloading OpenCms

Importing Workplace Screen Freezes

MySQL User/Password Changes

Finding More Installation Help

Summary

3. The OpenCms Workplace

A Tour of the OpenCms Workplace

The Toolbar

The Explorer View

Creating and Editing Content

Creating a Folder

The WYSIWYG Editor

The Sourcecode Editor

Publishing Your Changes

Versioning

Administration

Project Management

User Management

Database Management

Static Export

Clear Element Cache

Resource Type Management

Properties Management

Gallery Management Tools

Link Checking

Module Management

Synchronization Management

Scheduled Tasks

Log File Viewer

Channels

Flex Cache Administration

Workflow

Creating and Managing Tasks

Workflow Management Strategies

Use Projects to Manage Content Areas

Use Group Hierarchies for Inherited Permissions

Track Work with Tasks

Keeping a Trail

Modules

Obtaining Official OpenCms Modules

The Help System Modules

Importing OpenCms Modules

Where Did All that Module Data Go?

Online Documentation Modules

Other Modules

Summary

4. Customizing the Site

Overview of Creating a Site

Working with Templates and Tags

Creating a Site Module for Templates

Creating a New Template

The JSP Template

Associating a Page with the New Template

JSP Tag Libraries and Scriptlets

JSP Tag Libraries

The OpenCms Tag Library

The JSP Template

Creating a JSP Document

JSP Scriptlets

Basic Scriptlets

The CmsJspActionElement Object

OpenCms Navigation

Getting the Contents of Other Files

Advanced Scriptlet Programming

A Few Things to Watch Out For

The File System

Redirecting and Forwarding

Java Synchronization

Dynamic Content and Publishing

Structuring Code and Content

The FlexCache

Tuning the FlexCache

FlexCache JSP Directives

Absolute Directives

User Directives

Time-Sensitive Directives

URL Directives

Controlling the Cache with URL Parameters

Using FlexCache

Internationalization

Modules

Creating ResourceBundles

JSPs and ResourceBundles

Summary

5. The OpenCms System Architecture

Resource Types

Coding a New Resource Type

Building the Resource Type

Building with Ant

Editing the Properties Files

Adding a Restype

Menu Items

Rule Keys

Adding Properties for the Resource Type

Editing the OpenCms Registry

Using the New Resource Type

Content Definitions

The Steps for Creating a Content Definition

Important Methods

The Virtual File System

How Page Types Are Stored in the VFS

Resource Names and the VFS

Reading from and Writing to the VFS

Class Structure

com.opencms.boot

com.opencms.core

com.opencms.dbpool

com.opencms.defaults

com.opencms.defaults.master

com.opencms.file

com.opencms.file.<database>

com.opencms.file.utils

com.opencms.flex

com.opencms.flex.cache

com.opencms.flex.jsp

com.opencms.flex.util

com.opencms.htmlconverter

com.opencms.launcher

com.opencms.linkmanagement

com.opencms.report

com.opencms.template

com.opencms.template.cache

com.opencms.util

com.opencms.workplace

Summary

6. Creating an OpenCms Module

Using Modules

The Site Module

Creating a Module

Navigating the New Module

Custom Classes and Libraries

Adding Libraries

Adding Content

Creating a Simple XML Document

A Place for XSLT Templates

JSP Elements

Adding a Scheduled Task

The BatchTransformer Class

The CronBatchTransformer Class

Scheduling a Task

How an I_CmsCronJob Is Executed

Managing the Module

Administrate

The Dependency Screen

The Module Properties Screen

Properties

Accessing Module Parameters from JSP Pages

Exporting and Deploying the Module

Summary

7. Advanced Modules

Adding an Administration Point

Creating Icons

Adding a Properties File

Creating Administration Point Folders

Adding Additional Properties

Creating an Administration JSP

The JSP Code

The Administration Point in Action

XML Templates

How XML Templates Work

Editing XML Templates

The Structure of the Workplace XML Templates

The action Folder

The administration Folder

The help and locales Folders

The resources Folder

The restypes Folder

The scripts Folder

The templates Folder

The /system/login Folder

Creating a Custom Launcher

The Basic Idea

Implementing a Launcher

Editing the Registry

Testing the Launcher

Other Considerations

Creating XML-Template-Based Launchers

Creating Resource Loaders

Master Modules

Summary

8. Deploying an OpenCms Solution

Serving Static versus Dynamic Content

Published Resources

Static Serving

Dynamic Serving

The Export Property

Changing Export Settings

Static Export

Configuring for Static Export

Export Path Settings

Export URL Settings

Using Relative Links

Running a Static Export

Touching All Files in the VFS

Web User Authentication and Management

How OpenCms Handles Authentication

The Guest User

CMS Users

Web Users

Creating Web Users

The create_webuser.jsp Scriptlet

Authenticating Web Users

Using the Authentication JSP

Restricting Access through a Template

Backup and Recovery

Backing Up the Database

Backups from Within OpenCms

Performing an OpenCms Database Export

Backing Up Large Sites

The Backup Files

Importing an Export Zip File

Users and Groups

Resources

Performance Tuning

Database Tuning

MySQL

Oracle

SQL Server

OpenCms Tuning

FlexCache

Page Streaming

Efficient Coding

Other Resources

Summary

A. Building OpenCms from Source

What You Will Need

Getting the OpenCms Source

Checking Out the Source from CVS

Building OpenCms with Ant

Generating Javadocs

Summary

B. Using the OpenCms Lucene Search Module

Searching Technologies and OpenCms

About the Op...