Editing OpenCms (section)

{{Short description|Content management system}}
{{Infobox software
| name = OpenCms
| logo = OpenCms Logo.svg
| logo size = 200px
| screenshot = [[File:OpenCms 10 - The Sitemap editor.png|250px|Editing the structure of a website in the OpenCms sitemap editor.]]
| caption = The sitemap editor of OpenCms
| developer = [[Alkacon Software]] and the OpenCms community
| platform = [[Java platform|Java]], [[XML]]
| genre = [[Content management system]]
| license = [[GNU Lesser General Public License]]
| website = [https://www.opencms.org/ www.opencms.org]
| latest_release_version = {{OpenCms version}}
| latest_release_date = {{OpenCms version|releasedate}}
| operating_system = [[Cross-platform]]
}}

'''OpenCms''' is an [[open-source software|open-source]] [[content management system]]<ref name="linux-magazin.de">{{cite web
| last = Rähm
| first = Jan
| title = OpenCMS 7 kurz vor Veröffentlichung
| language = de
| date = 2007-06-26
| url = http://www.linux-magazin.de/news/opencms_7_kurz_vor_veroeffentlichung?category=381
| access-date = 2009-01-23}}</ref> written in [[Java platform|Java]].<ref name="cmswatch1">{{cite web
| last = Asipenko
| first = Slava
| title = OpenCms 6.0: A Review
| publisher = CMS Watch
| date = 17 Sep 2006
| url = http://www.cmswatch.com/Feature/152-OpenCms-6
| access-date = 2009-01-23}}</ref><ref name="computerwoche">{{cite web
| title = Quelloffenes Content-Management
| date = 2002-04-26
| url = http://www.computerwoche.de/heftarchiv/2002/17/1061384/
| access-date = 2009-01-23}}</ref> It is distributed by [[Alkacon Software]] under the [[GNU Lesser General Public License|LGPL]] [[license]].<ref name="zdnet">{{cite web
| last = McGrath
| first = John
| title = Open-source CMS: On the rise
| publisher = ZD Net
| date = 28 November 2002
| url = http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/business/soa/Open-source-CMS-On-the-rise/0,139023166,120270243,00.htm
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081022102444/http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/business/soa/Open-source-CMS-On-the-rise/0,139023166,120270243,00.htm
| url-status = dead
| archive-date = October 22, 2008
| access-date = 2009-01-23}}</ref> OpenCms requires a JSP Servlet container such as [[Apache Tomcat]].<ref name="zdnet"/>

It is a CMS application with a browser-based work environment, asset management, user management, workflow management, a [[WYSIWYG]] editor, internationalization support, content versioning, and many more features including proxying of requests to another endpoint.<ref name="cmswatch1"/>

OpenCms was launched in 1999,<ref name="zdnet"/> based on its closed-source predecessor MhtCms. The first open source version was released in 2000.

OpenCms is used or has been used by large organizations such as [[World Intellectual Property Organization|WIPO]], the [[LGT Group]], the [[University of Stuttgart]], the [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cologne|Archdiocese of Cologne]], and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.<ref name="zdnet"/>