[opencms-dev] Questions re OpenCMS architecture

[Robert Petermeier]

Mike W wrote:
> Firstly, why does it use its own DB pooling mechanism when it's deployed 
> to a J2EE container?

Good question. Maybe for historical reasons? Development started in 
1999, when CGI and Perl scripts were the state of the art in web 
development (yes, I know that's a simplification).

I agree that it might make sense to use standard techniques here. Still, 
it would make the installation procedure even more complicated than it 
is now as you'd have to edit the server config and/or deployment descriptor.

> Secondly, why does the installation process use the supplied 
 > admin user to then create its own (unrestricted) admin user?

Probably because during installation more permissions (CREATE DATABASE, 
CREATE TABLE, ...) are needed than for a running system. What's the 
problem with that?


Robert