[opencms-dev] The Server Side article featuring OpenCms

[M Butcher]

TheServerSide.COM, a Java developer site, is featuring an article on my 
OpenCms book.

There are three things of interest (I hope):
1) Sample chapters from the book.
2) An article about extending OpenCms through modules. The article walks 
through an example of adding Velocity template support to OpenCms.
3) The complete module and source code are also available for download. 
The module is released under the Apache-style license (which is 
obviously an Open Source license). After talking with Alexander a while 
back, I decided to switch all my new OpenCms development from GPL to Apache.

http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=28734

Since he doesn't seem to be acknowledged at the TSS site, I want to 
thank Harald directly for lending his eyes and brain to the production 
of the article.

I noticed another thread about the book, but answering it directly 
seemed to be even more self-promotional than sending this message. 
However, I figured I'd add just a word about the state of things:

The book covers version 5.0x. However, my publisher is apparently 
thinking about releasing a new version of the book after version 6 is 
released. If there is content you'd definitely like to see included in a 
new edition/revision of the book, let the Packt people know about it 
(there is a form at http://packtpub.com). They are already compiling a list.

Oh, finally, I guess the book was nominated by the JDJ for the best Java 
book of the year. That's nice... too bad I'm competing with books from 
Sun and IBM. (Thanks, BTW, to whoever nominated me!)

http://sys-con.com/java/readerschoice2004/

Matt