A while ago we wanted to store internationalisation for a project in database to allow (a subset of) users to create and update internationalisation using the application itself. When we…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 A lot of information is quite outdated but it also contains some useful snippets that we would like…