Modern web applications often consist of quite some configuration files that should at least be tested for validity. Think of Spring controller configurations, web application descriptors and the like that…

Matching the time of my talk at this years OpenCms Days we released our module for integrating Solr with OpenCms. A few days have passed now and we had the…

From May 9 2011 to May 10 the third OpenCms Days took place in Cologne. The topic of the conference was “The OpenCms 8 User Experience”, targeting the release of…

I previously mentioned that setting up a development environment for OpenCms can be quite hard. Besides our Netbeans module we are using a custom maven plugin for some time now.…

I just returned from Solr Summit in Frankfurt, a half day mini conference about Solr, the search server based on Apache Lucene. It has been a really worthwile event with…

Vom 09. bis zum 10. Mai finden, rechtzeitig zum Release von OpenCms 8, die 3. OpenCms-Days in Köln statt. Synyx unterstützt die Entwicklerkonferenz wie in den vergangenen Jahren gerne, wir…

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…

As the university days on Devoxx are nearly finished I’d like to summarize some of the more interesting talks that happened during the first two days. Marc already wrote some…

It took me some time to figure it out so why not sharing it with the world? Apache allows you to add basic auth to parts of your site using…

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…

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…

I have just been fighting with the sql-maven-plugin while trying to import an OpenCms MySQL dump automatically. The module wasn’t really verbose with an error message: [ERROR] Failed to execute:…

When developing web apps with Maven the de facto standard for running the app is to use the excellent Maven Jetty Plugin which runs the project in an embedded Jetty…

Generating documents from data that is managed by a web application is a quite common need. Think about letters that are generated for a customer relationship management system or bills…