Open Source Blog Archive

Feb 13

Synyx Open Source Projekt Hades schafft den Sprung zu SpringSource

Am Donnerstag hat SpringSource das erste Milestone-Release von Spring Data JPA veröffentlicht. Spring Data JPA ist die Weiterentwicklung der Synyx OpenSource Bibliothek Hades. Hades wurde hauptsächlich von Oliver Gierke entwickelt,…

Jan 10

Scripting OpenCms

OpenCms ships with a shell script for accessing the virtual file system from the command line. This is useful for a lot of administrative tasks like importing modules or exporting…

Jan 1

Integration tests for your Solr config

Solr is a search server that bundles a lot of useful Lucene modules and provides an HTTP interface for querying and updating the data. The index and most of the…

Nov 26

Netbeans and OpenCms

OpenCms stores all its content like JSP-templates, images and CSS files in a virtual file system which makes it impossible to use normal development models. As we are using it…

Nov 24

Logging to multiple files using log4j

Sometimes even the simple things take quite some time. For a special application log I’ve been searching for a way to write log calls for one package to a separate…

Nov 3

Using CmsShell on Ubuntu systems

CmsShell is a neat tool to access the OpenCms VFS from the command line. This can be extremely useful when your system can’t be accessed anymore using the web interface…

Okt 13

Context reload with Tomcat

Ever wondered why Tomcat reloads the context when editing web.xml? This is a default configuration that can also be adjusted to your needs. The file conf/context.xml is the default context…

Okt 12

Console logging with OpenCms

We are currently in the process of cleaning up our internal wiki. A lot of information is quite outdated but it also contains some useful snippets that we would like…

Aug 24

FrOSCon 2010

Am 21. und 22.08. fand für mich die 2. Free and Open Source Software Conference FrOSCon in St. Augustin bei Bonn statt. Der Hauptgrund für meinen Besuch im letzten Jahr…