What You Need for Using This Book

To use this book, you will of course need OpenCms. This is freely downloadable from http://www.opencms.org/opencms/en/download/opencms.html.

OpenCms has its own requirements for installation: Java 2 SDK version 1.4 or higher, Apache Tomcat 4.x, and MySQL 3.23.x or higher.

You will find details of where to download these applications from in Chapter 2, but each is freely available.

A sound knowledge of Java, JSP, and XML will help you get the most out of this book.