Integration of Java application with OpenCms

Question

I want to know how to integrate a Java web application with OpenCms contents. Is it possible to integrate a Java application with OpenCms?

Answer 1

What I have done successfully is to create a jstl tag library to connect JSPs in OpenCms to a business backend.

In my case it was done through a SOAP web-service.

Another advantage of this was that I could test and develop my code in Eclipse, without a dependency on OpenCms.

Deploying to production would then mean to deploy a jar file to the OpenCms webapp.

Yet another advantage: Since we put some of the view-logic into the OpenCms-hosted JSPs, they were versioned by OpenCms.