[opencms-dev] Lucene and lucene.jar file...

[M Butcher]

To add a library (jar) to a module, you can create a 'lib' directory in
the main module directory  (e.g. /com.mycompany.foo.module/lib) and then
put libraries in there. When you install a module, the jar is copied
into the /WEB_INF/lib folder. You'll have to restart the servlet
container to get the classloader to load it, though. 

I think there is some documentation on this in the modules "how to."

I hope that answers your question.

Matt

On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 00:47, Romano Tiziano wrote:
> Hi Matt,
> I would like to know how you included the lucene.jar in your module in order that the import of that one was able to install the jar file directly into the /WEB-INF/lib/ folder.
> I mean, for now my installation of the module is a partial installation... I import the jsp and web content and successively I import the classes in a separate way. Does exist a way to do this automatically? I think so, infact your lucene module has the lucene.jar file into your lib folder of your module and once imported, that jar is automatically copied in /WEB-INF/lib/ folder. How did you make that? Can you help me?
> 
> Kind regards,
> Tiziano Romano
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: opencms-dev-admin at opencms.org
> [mailto:opencms-dev-admin at opencms.org]On Behalf Of M Butcher
> Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 21:07
> To: opencms-dev at opencms.org
> Subject: Re: [opencms-dev] Suitability of OpenCMS
> 
> 
> Seji,
> 
> OpenCMS is quite a bit different from Vignette, so a "line by line"
> comparison might not be the fairest way to approach the two. However,
> I'll try.
> 
> First of all, OpenCMS is heavily optimized for Web content, which makes
> development time for Web apps faster than some of the other commercial
> CMS products I've used.
> 
> Content Uploads: 
> OpenCMS uses an XML format for much of its content. Most of the Web
> content is stored, managed and edited within the OpenCMS system (usually
> via the administration interface). Editors work directly on CMS content
> through their Web browsers.
> 
> Uploads of other content is possible through a number of mechanisms. For
> the post part, though, external file formats (DOC, PDF, XLS) are simply
> treated as binary documents, and (aside from specifying metadata) not
> much is done with them. That said, there are a couple of reasources that
> the OpenCMS community has worked on to add on some capabilities (such as
> download catalogs and Lucene searching of PDF documents).
> 
> Viewing/Uploading Content:
> OpenCMS handles files in a virtual file system (VFS), so navigating
> documents is done by clicking through a document hierarchy. There are
> also search tools to help editors find files.
> 
> Site Searching:
> There are two or three (maybe more) modules to add searching
> capabilities to OpenCMS. Some provide search for published files, others
> search the CMS repository directly. All that I know of use optimized
> indexing as a method of searching (e.g. "periodic full text indexing").
> Again, searching generally only works for Web documents (and sometimes
> PDF), but AFAIK will not work on binary formats like Word and Excel.
> 
> Scripting:
> OpenCMS uses JSP, XML Templates and Java classes to handle content. JSPs
> are probably the closest to TCL. OpenCMS is designed to be extended, and
> there are lots of ways to develop additional functionality. In the past,
> I've added on features to:
> - allow user registration over the web
> - integrate with third-party forums
> - add email notifications
> - search the repository
> - email web pages
> - integrate third party chat
> 
> Others on the list have developed custom calendaring, news, article
> management, guestbook and weather modules which are available as Open
> Source modules.
> 
> Any major CMS move will take time and resources, and data migration will
> be a big task. I don't know if OpenCMS will be much faster than others,
> but at least you have tools (and sourcecode) that will give a
> development team a leg up in expediting the process.
> 
> Finally, In addition to the official website, you may want to look at 
> http://opencms.al-arenal.de/ (a repository of additional modules and
> documents) and http://www.opencms-forum.de (the forums) for more info on
> the product and what people have done with it.
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> Matt  
> 
> On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 12:14, Seji Thomas wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >  
> > I am having a web-site which is managed through Vignette Content
> > Management System 5.x. It has a content upload module through which
> > users of the system upload data to the system. The data may be text,
> > textfiles, pdfs, docs, spreadsheets etc. Apart from this there is
> > a content display module through which users can view content and
> > search for those uploaded items. The users can also subscribe for
> > various kind of mail alerts when a content of their choice gets
> > uploaded. The current system employs periodic full text indexing on
> > the database so as to speed up the search. The web-site also needs
> > search functionality - both static and dynamic content(dynamic
> > desirable). 
> >  
> > Vignette manages the site by way of running Tcl Scripts. How suitable
> > is OpenCMS for developing and managing a site of this stature? I have
> > mentioned only some of the major functions of the system. Since the
> > softwares currently used are costly and some of the aspects like full
> > text indexing has to be implemented more efficiently the site requires
> > a major revamp without loss of data. 
> >  
> > Any opinions on this will be highly regarded. 
> >  
> > Thanks in Advance,
> > Seji Thomas
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