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.…

It has been a while since these pages saw some content. The daily software engineering business calls for our full attention, leaving us writing more code than content. Which is…

Unfortunately there are still projects not on dvsc like git. That’s especially true for enterprise customers which are at least stuck on Subversion if not worse. So the first thing…

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…

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…

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…

Today, I tried to install parts of the SpringSource Tool Suite into Eclipse Helios SR1 via update-site. After finding the right update-site of the STS for version 3.6 of eclipse…

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…

This year in November three of my colleagues and I were visiting the best Java conference ever – Devoxx in Antwerp (blogs here: 1,2,3). Now, since more than a month…