[opencms-dev] Application development in OpenCMS

[Alexander Wallace]

On Tuesday 22 November 2005 05:55, pieter claassen wrote:
> I am about to start developing an application and would like to consider
> using OpenCMS as framework. However, I have the following questions:
>
> 1. Is there a manual or tutorial that covers application development in
> OpenCMS? Specifically user authentication, authorisation, database
> access etc?
User authentication to opencms can be handled by opencms apis. The first form 
you get when you install opencms with the included content has a login form 
that can be used as a start to handle user authentication. Opencms provides 
apis to do all kinds of user management.    Database access to the opencms' 
database can also be obtained through api calls, mainly to obtain a 
connection from it's database pool. Info about it can be found on the mailing 
list archived.

> 2. How does one develop a user authentication system?
Again, if you want to use the same users/groups that opencms has, you can use 
opencms' apis for that. See answer above.

> 3. Is there something like JDO to access data in OpenCMS or what are the
> alternatives (JDBC?)
Opencms does not offer any ORM type of stuff for your own objects. Only 
opencms's have this, but it's done through JDBC so far. There have been talks 
about integrating something like hibernate with opencms, but i don't think 
anything like this has happened.

However, there is nothing stopping you from using the same or an alternate 
database or databases and use hibernate, jdo, or ejb3, etc to handle your own 
ORM needs.

After all opencms i a java webapp, so pretty much any framework can be plugged 
in.  


>
> Thanks,
> Pieter
>
>
>
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