JSP integration in OpenCms

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The JSP integration in OpenCms allows easy and standards based creation of dynamic functionality. JSPs are managed in the OpenCms Workplace like all other contents. Moreover, JSP based templates allow you to separate XML based structured or unstructured content and a highly dynamic layout of your pages. The main features of the OpenCms JSP integration are:

• Supports WYSIWYG editable structured contents or unstructured pages which use JSP templates
• Use the same JSP template for editable contents and interactive forms
• JSP Taglib for common OpenCms tasks
• JSP API to directly access OpenCms functionality, available as taglib or in scriptlet code
• Separate online and offline versions of the same JSP
• Optional output streaming on a per-page basis
• Optional static export of JSP
• Advanced configurable cache settings for the rendered output

With the new WebDAV integration of OpenCms 7, it is now possible to edit all JSP files using a development environment with code completion and syntax highlighting (see screenshot above). With WebDAV the changed JSPs can easily be synchronized with the OpenCms virtual file system.