OpenCms WebDAV support

Accessing OpenCms resources of the virtual file system is now much easier using the WebDAV protocol. Developers can use their preferred development environment to program JSPs or other functionalities, and content editors are able to use external editors to edit HTML pages.

Using Eclipse for development

Eclipse Site Explorer showing the OpenCms virtual file system
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Java developers can use Eclipse with the WebDAV plugin to synchronize JSPs and other resources with the OpenCms virtual file system.

All benefits of their preferred IDE like syntax highlighting or code completion are available, and changes can be immediately uploaded to OpenCms or downloaded from OpenCms.

Special wrappers for path translation

The OpenCms WebDAV interface allows editing of properties and HTML page elements by using special wrappers. Properties are wrapped as propertty files containing key/value pairs to edit, HTML pages as folders containing a virtual file for each editable content element.

With these wrappers, content editors are able to use their preferred editor, e.g. Macromedia Dreamweaver, to edit OpenCms contents.

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Latest News

  • Summary of the first OpenCms development Sprint

    Sep 12, 2008 - The first OpenCms Sprint was held September 9-10, 2008 in the KOMED convention center in Cologne, Germany. A total of 10 developers attended the Sprint. Results and Proceedings of the Sprint are now available for download.

  • Alkacon OCEE 2.1 substantially extends OpenCms functionality

    Aug 29, 2008 - OCEE for OpenCms offers Support for LDAP, Clustering, Replication and improved performance. The latest OCEE release version 2.1 is a major update that introduces a number of new features for OpenCms 7.

  • Alkacon OAMP Comments module available

    Aug 28, 2008 - The next open source module in the Alkacon OAMP series has been released. The OAMP Comments module allows to add highly configurable blog like comment options to all template based pages in OpenCms.

  • First OpenCms Development Sprint in Cologne, Germany

    Jul 21, 2008 - Our very first OpenCms development sprint event will happen September 9 to 10, 2008 in Cologne, Germany. Sprints are a gathering of OpenCms developers who want to activly shape the future of OpenCms.