[opencms-dev] Wiki for OpenCms documentation

[Marcus Popetz]

On 10/31/06, Joachim Zittmayr <joachim at imap.cc> wrote:
>
> what do u mean by 'common extension recipes'? just the way how how-to's
> are organized, step-by-step? i'm fine with that!


Exactly.   Basically I'm thinking of general principals/how tos  for the
most common customisations of open cms.

"How to implement custom access principals for your pages"


Another good section would be how to develop modules for opencms.

-mp


On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 11:29:38 -0500, "Marcus Popetz"
> <marcus at roundpeg.com> said:
> > 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
> --
>   Joachim Zittmayr
>   joachim at imap.cc
>
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