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Joachim,

> may I introduce myself? Joachim Kleinhans. 10 years IT-experience

> mainly in Advertising Agencies and publishing houses. I am studying

> human medicine and practise Tae Kwon Do a lot.

Welcome to ops-users!

> Maybe you can give me some advice about how to learn OPS and eXist

> in a straight manner?

We had a decent tutorial for OPS 2.8 but so much has changed in 3.0,

especially regarding XForms support, that I would not really advise

following that.

We plan a new step by step introduction for OPS 3.5. In fact, we have

been planning to do this since OPS 3.0, and it is truly a great hole

in the documentation.

For now, your best bet is to go through the existing documentation and

look at the examples' source code, including the XForms Controls

example and our most advanced example, the DMV Forms example. We

recommend you use a nighly build instead of 3.0.1.

Note that this example will be simplified soon as we move to using the

eXist REST API instead of the XML:DB API, and we plan to heavily

reorganize the directory structure for 3.5 as well to make it more

accessible.

For eXist-specific questions and issues, you may want to use the

exist-open mailing-list, although we definitely welcome questions that

relate to using eXist with OPS.

> There may be some documentation but it lacks some information. I

> could not even find the info which snapshot of eXist is embedded in

> OPS 3.0.1?

Well, if you download a nighly build of OPS and look at the WAR file's

WEB-INF/lib, you will find the file exist-20060316.jar. BTW, contrary

to many other projects, we have the habit of always putting a version

number in the JAR files that we use. Hopefully we can upgrade to eXist

1.0 RC soon, but if you deploy eXist separately from OPS, you can

already use 1.0 RC or 1.1 RC.

> Should I use the embedded one or try to deploy OPS using an external

> eXist database?

Embedded for convenience if you want to just play, external for real

deployment. What I mean by "external" here is as a separate web

application, not necessarily in a separate server.

> Should I configure OPS / Tomcat to use Apache as well for serving

> static HTML?

For deployment, sure. For development, there is no need to.

> Is there an advantage in using PHP through Apache as well or doesn't

> miss one PHP as soon as one uses OPS? ;-)

Well, I don't know much about PHP and don't use it so can't answer. If

you want security holes, then use PHP ;-)

> I hope you don't mind my introduction. If this list may be not used

> in such behaviour, please don't flame me ;-)

We try never to do this ;-)

-Erik

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Joachim,

> may I introduce myself? Joachim Kleinhans. 10 years IT-experience

> mainly in Advertising Agencies and publishing houses. I am studying

> human medicine and practise Tae Kwon Do a lot.

Welcome to ops-users!

> Maybe you can give me some advice about how to learn OPS and eXist

> in a straight manner?

We had a decent tutorial for OPS 2.8 but so much has changed in 3.0,

especially regarding XForms support, that I would not really advise

following that.

We plan a new step by step introduction for OPS 3.5. In fact, we have

been planning to do this since OPS 3.0, and it is truly a great hole

in the documentation.

For now, your best bet is to go through the existing documentation and

look at the examples' source code, including the XForms Controls

example and our most advanced example, the DMV Forms example. We

recommend you use a nighly build instead of 3.0.1.

Note that this example will be simplified soon as we move to using the

eXist REST API instead of the XML:DB API, and we plan to heavily

reorganize the directory structure for 3.5 as well to make it more

accessible.

For eXist-specific questions and issues, you may want to use the

exist-open mailing-list, although we definitely welcome questions that

relate to using eXist with OPS.

> There may be some documentation but it lacks some information. I

> could not even find the info which snapshot of eXist is embedded in

> OPS 3.0.1?

Well, if you download a nighly build of OPS and look at the WAR file's

WEB-INF/lib, you will find the file exist-20060316.jar. BTW, contrary

to many other projects, we have the habit of always putting a version

number in the JAR files that we use. Hopefully we can upgrade to eXist

1.0 RC soon, but if you deploy eXist separately from OPS, you can

already use 1.0 RC or 1.1 RC.

> Should I use the embedded one or try to deploy OPS using an external

> eXist database?

Embedded for convenience if you want to just play, external for real

deployment. What I mean by "external" here is as a separate web

application, not necessarily in a separate server.

> Should I configure OPS / Tomcat to use Apache as well for serving

> static HTML?

For deployment, sure. For development, there is no need to.

> Is there an advantage in using PHP through Apache as well or doesn't

> miss one PHP as soon as one uses OPS? ;-)

Well, I don't know much about PHP and don't use it so can't answer. If

you want security holes, then use PHP ;-)

> I hope you don't mind my introduction. If this list may be not used

> in such behaviour, please don't flame me ;-)

We try never to do this ;-)

-Erik

-- 

Orbeon - XForms Everywhere:

http://www.orbeon.com/blog/

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