[opencms-dev] Newbie: Porting existing sites

[Uwe König]

Hi John, 


On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 13:56:56 +1000
"John Mazzocchi" <John.Mazzocchi at tafmo.com> wrote:

> The navigation for each site involves some pretty involved
> JavaScript and CSS (they vary quite a bit, long story ...) ... and
> I *DO NOT* want OpenCms to handle this, in fact I'd like OpenCms
> to ignore the navigation code - obviously this means that I'd need
> a different template for every page, am I right?

If the Javascript is differs from page to page, yes. But then it
wouldn't make sense to make a template. Teplates just make sense if
pages have got content in common. 


> The JSP pages work as such ... there's a different form on each
> one which submits parameters through a GET to a JSP (sometimes on
> another server, which then grabs information from a PostGres DB,
> and then sends back HTML which gets embedded in the JSP, which
> reloads itself ... and other ones call a JSP in the same
> directory). Obviously, it's a homegrown solution/kludge ... ;)
> 
> Would it be difficult to port this to OpenCms ... am I better off
> with something like JBoss Portal or JetSpeed perhaps?

Depends on the JSPs. But since OpenCMS can handle JSPs, I see no
reason for you not to investigate further. 
Best regards, 


Uwe König