A practical guide to understanding and working with this proven Java/JSP-based content management system

• Understand how OpenCms handles and publishes content to the Web

• Learn how to create your own, complex, OpenCms website

• Develop the skills to implement, customize, and maintain an OpenCms website

• Installing OpenCms, and its basic concepts

• Using the OpenCms Workplace

• Exploring the core architecture and the virtual file system

• Working with JSP templates

• Creating OpenCms modules

• Adding custom resource types

• Exporting to static HTML

• Deploying and managing an OpenCms website

• Understand how OpenCms handles and publishes content to the Web

• Be confident working in the OpenCms environment

• Have the skills to extend the OpenCms system

• Be able to create your own, complex, OpenCms website

Amazon.com® Reader Reviews (Ranked by Helpfulness)

Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 2 Ratings

Wasted Trees - 2005-10-11
Reviewer Rating:
Sorry to disappoint the prospective buyer, this book is a waste of your time. It covers Opencms 5.0.? the most recent version of Opencms 6.0? as of today is much different, the API has changed a lot. The book is 262 pages on really bad quality paper and first few chapters are really basic that describe the various UI features in Opencms.
Certain chapters like Chapter 5 that describe the Opencms architecture are nothing but list a list of package descriptions and mind you the package names have changed... what a waste ?

I rate it at two stars only because there is no other book on Opencms, else I would say it is one star.

free code, but with a learning curve - 2004-12-02
Reviewer Rating:
Once upon a time (10 years ago), content management programs were expensive proprietary packages. But recently, the open source movement has produced OpenCMS. However, though it is free, the complexity of usage can be high. And the documentation that comes with it is too daunting for many would-be users.

Butcher offers you a more pleasant alternative with this book. He writes for a programmer familiar with XML and Java. Plus, you should also have some knowledge of JSP for making dynamic HTML pages for websites. While JSPs are powerful, they don't allow for multiple authors to edit and publish HTML pages, or for a versioning system to mediate access to these pages. This needs extra code interacting with the JSPs. In a nutshell, OpenCMS does this.

The book walks through the usage. Many screen captures of the browser interface that is how the users access it. No fancy effects, like with Flash or Dreamweaver. But all the essentials are present and described by Butcher.

He also discusses the back end database that the web server for OpenCMS uses. A fair amount of customising is possible here; with concomitant complexity. But if your website is not "too" large, you may be able to avoid dealing with many details of the database. [Just remember to regularly back it up to tape or CD!]

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