[opencms-dev] Wiki for OpenCms documentation

[Marcus Popetz]

Much better than I Joachim, it brought up a few more things in my mind...my
changes in red:

-mp



development env and tips:
   - eclipse integration
   - ftpd module
   - that synch with external directory thing.

Best Practices:  ?
   - directory structure layout
   -

Common extension recipes (howtos)?  (this would be hard to organize....but
nice. like the infamous Perl Cookbook)
   - integrating custom login page with opencms user db.
   - ???

installation & setup:
   - basics and overview
   - app server related topics (tomcat, jetty, jboss, websphere,
   etc...)
   - Custom DB Driver INstallation/Setup
   - building from scratch

configuration & customization
   - opencms-xml-system-configs explained
   - advanced module config
   - action classes
   - making it ROOT-App (tomcat related)
   - Removing opencms/opencms/ with APache + modjk (apache related)
   - MultiSite configuration instructions
   - Load Balancing with Alkacon Clustering OCEE
   - Static Export configuration

integration
   - spring
   - hibernate
   - struts (separate as I see people ask this a lot?)
   - jbpm
   - mvnForum
   - other j2ee stuff
   - jmx

basic template developement:
   - basics and overview (what the hell is a site?)
   - lessons learned
   - common and frequent mistakes, NPEs
   - oc-taglibrary specifics(!)
>    ???  what subsections would be break this in to?
>    Building from Scratch?
>    Using existing Template One
>    Other example templates  (wouldn't a library of tons of templates be
>    nice?)

advanced development topics
   - core stuff
   - event handling

> XMLContent
>     Basics
>     Creating a new type
>     Custom add/remove scripts

   - custom widgets
   - configuring html-editor for the OpenCmsHtml-widget
   - other xml-content-type-configuration topics

>     Hooking xml content properties up to opencms file properties
>     Display examples
> Search
>     Configuration
>     Sample search results pages

   - common mistakes
   - writing only specific xml-element-data to the lucene index
   - lucene related: writing custom analyzers, stemmers, documents

> Performance Tuning
>
>     Flex Cache tuning
>
> ?Basic Admin?:
>     Scheduled tasks config
>

hints & tips
   - restypes available
   - which opencms core classes to use for specific tasks
   - all the hidden stuff that's extremly helpful or just good to know

nice2haves & wishlist
   - maybe alkacon is interested, what the community would like to have
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