Alexander Kandzior, Alkacon Software
Conference Opening Keynote
Introducing OpenCms 8.5
24.09.2012
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● Question:
Who has already attended an OpenCms Days
conference before?
● Question:
Who of you is mostly using…
● OpenCms 7.x ?
● OpenCms 8.0 ?
Some Questions
OpenCms 8.5 Release
● OpenCms Version 8.5 will be released today
● Available on opencms.org September 24, 2012
● OpenCms 8.5 design goals:
● Improve the content manages user experience,
especially while editing content
● Provide the developer with more powerful,
standard based access to the content reository
● Be backward compatible to versions 8.0 and 7.5
● Page Editor
● Content Editor
● Sitemap Editor
The Editors in OpenCms 8.5
Main area of
improvement in
OpenCms 8.5
Live Demo – Content Editor (1)
Live Demo – Content Editor (2)
Live Demo – Content Editor (3)
Live Demo – Content Editor (4)
● Content can be edited „inline“ on the page
● Content can be edited form based
● It‘s easy to combine / switch both approaches
● Editor is much faster, much more responsive
● Works with existing 8.0 / 7.5 content “out of the box”, no changes to the XSD schema required
OpenCms 8.5 Editor Summary
● OpenCms 8.5 now has integrated SEO
features
● SEO = “Search engine optimization”
● Goal: Automate “common” SEO tasks related
to the website / content
OpenCms 8.5 SEO Features
● SEO features are easily accessible from a simple dialog in the page / sitemap editor
● Individual page aliases
● Regular expression aliases
● Automated generation of robots.txt and sitemap.xml
OpenCms 8.5 SEO Summary
OpenCms 8.5 Solr Integration
Solr Demo (1)
Solr Demo (2)
Solr Demo (3)
● Solr fully integrated in OpenCms 8.5
● Standard Solr API supported through request handler
● Use tools as “ajax-solr” out of the box
● Honors OpenCms user permissions
● Use Solr as noSQL database to query the OpenCms repository, fast
● Results are list of CmsResource objects, merged with the Solr document
OpenCms 8.5 Solr Summary
OpenCms 8.5 CMIS Integration
CMIS Demo (1)
CMIS Demo (2)
CMIS Demo (3)
CMIS Demo (4)
CMIS Demo (5)
● CMIS integrated in OpenCms 8.5
● Provides standard based access to the
OpenCms content repository
● Full support for CRUD operations
● Allows queries to collect resources
OpenCms 8.5 CMIS Summary
● We made a number of “small changes”…
8.5 user interface improvements
UI Improvements Demo (1)
UI Improvements Demo (2)
UI Improvements Demo (3)
UI Improvements Demo (4)
UI Improvements Demo (5)
UI Improvements Demo (6)
8.5 UI improvements summary
● Streamlined user interface
● Enhanced galleries
● More features in the Sitemap
● Inheritance groups
Updating from previous versions
● Update wizard is available
● Tested with OpenCms 7.5, 8.0 versions
● Adding “inline edit” to existing OpenCms 8.0
formatters is super easy
● Just add one expression language statement
● Look out for:
● Changes in the org.opencms.search.* packages
● Custom widgets in the old content editor
Alkacon OCEE
● Question:
Who of you is using Alkacon OCEE?
● OCEE Version 3.5 to be released
until October 1, 2012
● Required for OpenCms 8.5
Demo server and documentation
● The OpenCms demo server has already been
updated with OpenCms 8.5
● http://demo.opencms.org
● Available September 24, 212
● OpenCms 8.5 comes with 70+ pages of
documentation
● More to be added in the near future
What’s coming next?
● Expect OpenCms 9.0 in about 12 to 18 months
● Possible areas of improvement
● Semantic CMS features
● Deeper Solr repository integration
● Individual detail pages
● Multilanguage sitemaps
● Bootstrap template demo
● Workflow
Alexander Kandzior
Alkacon Software GmbH
http://www.alkacon.com
http://www.opencms.org
Thank you very much for your
attention!
