[opencms-dev] Migrating an existing website to opencms

[Andreas Seidler]

Hi,

We have been tasked with the "migration" of our university institute's
website to opencms. The website's content (staff, teaching, projects,
publications) is stored in an Oracle database. The current (Java-based)
system generates pages dynamically at runtime (using the Mercatis library
for database access and the WebDixie library for presentation).

One of the main goals of the project is giving staff members the ability to
use the WYSIWYG editor to manage the content of "their" pages (classes,
projects, publications, ...). This leads us to the following questions:
- Is a "migration" of the type of system described (lots of cross-referenced
data) to opencms a viable solution and worth the effort (i.e. is opencms
well suited for this type of website)?
- How does one get the content stored in the external (form an opencms point
of view) database into the opencms WYSIWYG editor (and out of it)?
- What would be the recommended approach to migrating a system of the
described type to opencms?

Thanks in advance, best regards,
Andreas Seidler