[opencms-dev] offline multi-user editing of JSP-s

[Gergely Timar]

Hi all,

I'm new to opencms, but have playing around with the latest beta on
our staging server. I must say that a I'm very impressed with it, and
it seems to meet all of our requirements. I did find one issue that I
haven't been able to resolve (I searched the mailing list archives
thoroughly): what is the best way to edit template modules/JSP-s in a
multi-developer environment? The following is our setup:

1. A public server hosting the website contents. This would run the
    OpenCMS servlet. This server is as bare-bones as possible,
    running only those apps that are required to get the job done.
    
2. Multiple developers working concurrently on the website templates
   on their own machines.

I know that using the online editors provided by OpenCMS would work,
but the lack of syntax highlighting and code completion really would
hurt developer productivity. I found a lot of posts in the archive
that suggested the use of the synchronization feature to overcome
this, however as far as I can tell, you can only synchronize with one
folder on the server. With multiple developers working on their own -
slightly different - version of the source code, this is not
possible. Each developer could run their own OpenCMS servlet and
connect to the same mysql database housing the VFS, but I don't see
how this could help with the concurrent development issue.

Does anybody have a good workflow for this scenario, or some
suggestions how we could approximate what we've envisioned?

TIA.
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Best regards,
 Greg Timar                          mailto:balinvadasz at gmx.net