Alkacon OpenCms Complete Training

(5 days)

This five day training course is a comprehensive "jump start" to OpenCms development. It provides insight in OpenCms template and module creation, and also covers advanced procedures in OpenCms API development.

The course is in two parts, which usually take about 2.5 days each to complete.

Part one: OpenCms Template Basics is intended for people with previous experience in building websites using HTML, PHP or other web technologies, but with basic Java knowledge only.

Part two: OpenCms API usage covers advanced procedures in OpenCms development. It is aimed at experienced Java web developers who have previous experience with Java, HTML and JSP and want to learn the OpenCms related special APIs.

It is assumed that course participants have a basic understanding about the general use of OpenCms as a content manager.

After attending the course, a participant should be able to start developing his own OpenCms enabled website with templates and custom extensions right away.

Alkacon OpenCms Complete Training agenda

Part one: OpenCms Template Basics

• Local installation of OpenCms
• Using advanced OpenCms features
• JSP basics in OpenCms
• Using the JSTL 1.0 taglib in OpenCms
• Using the OpenCms taglib
• Creating an OpenCms template
• Building a dynamic page navigation
• Caching, export and development configuration
• Working with OpenCms content modules
• Creating an OpenCms module
• Localizing OpenCms websites
• Putting it all together
• Recap and summary

Part two: OpenCms API usage

• Creating an XML content schema
• Displaying XML contents
• Configuring XML contents
• Extending the XML content editor
• Using nested XML contents
• Using the OpenCms API
• Searching OpenCms sites
• Advanced search topics
• Password protected areas
• The OpenCms scheduler
• Building XML content collectors
• Extending the XML content handler

The Alkacon OpenCms Complete Training Training course comes with a full set of exhaustive pre-build material. It contains over 300 slides and example code for more then 20 lessons . Also provided are exercises for all important topics.

Please note: The Alkacon OpenCms Complete Training course is identical to the combination of the Basic Template training with the Advanced API training. The same lessons and material is used.

Please check our training course requirements.