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<?xml version='1.0'?> <!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [ <!-- Global variables are defined in variables.ent --> <!ENTITY % myvars SYSTEM "variables.ent"> %myvars; ]> <book> <title>OpenACS Core Documentation</title> <part id="for-everyone"> <title>OpenACS For Everyone</title> <chapter id="general-documents"> <title>High level information: What is OpenACS?</title> <sect1 id="openacs-overview" xreflabel="OpenACS Overview"> <title>Overview</title> <para> OpenACS (Open Architecture Community System) is an advanced toolkit for building scalable, community-oriented web applications. If you're thinking of building an enterprise-level web application, OpenACS is a solid, scalable framework for building dynamic content driven sites. </para> <para> OpenACS is a collection of pre-built applications and services that you can use to build your web site/application. Through a modular architecture, OpenACS has packages for user/groups management, content management, e-commerce, news, FAQs, calendar, forums, bug tracking, full-text searching, and <ulink url="http://openacs.org/packages/">much more</ulink>. </para> <para> OpenACS relies on <ulink url="http://www.aolserver.com/">AOLserver</ulink>, the free, multithreaded, scalable, Tcl-enabled, web/application server used by America Online for most of its web sites, and a true ACID-compliant Relational Database Management System (RDBMS). Currently OpenACS supports PostgreSQL, an open source RDBMS, and Oracle and is easily extensible to other databases which support a comparable feature set. </para> <para> The OpenACS toolkit is derived from the ArsDigita Community System (ACS). ArsDigita (now part of Red Hat, Inc.) kindly made their work available under the <ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt">GPL</ulink>, making all of this possible. </para> <para> The OpenACS project was born when Don Baccus, Ben Adida, and others decided to port ACS from Oracle to PostgreSQL, thus making it a fully open-source solution. With OpenACS 4, Oracle and PostgreSQL support were combined in one code base and with OpenACS 5, support for internationalization and localization has been added. </para> <para> A vibrant and productive community has sprung up around the OpenACS software and there are many volunteer contributors as well as a commercial companies able to provide support, hosting, and custom development. Many of the production users are actively funding and contributing work back to the project. Formal, consensus driven governance has been established (with semi-annual elections) which ensures the project serves the needs of it's constituents. </para> <para> The OpenACS community would like to hear your comments and can help you in your endeavors with the system. Visit our <ulink url="http://openacs.org/">web site</ulink> and feel free to <ulink url="http://openacs.org/forums/">ask questions or provide feedback</ulink>. </para> </sect1> <xi:include href="for-everyone/release-notes.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Release Notes Section Missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> </chapter> </part> <part id="acs-admin"> <title>Administrator's Guide</title> <chapter id="install-overview"> <title>Installation Overview</title> <authorblurb> <para>by <ulink url="mailto:vinod@kurup.com">Vinod Kurup</ulink></para> </authorblurb> <xi:include href="install-guide/overview.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Overview Section Missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> <!-- <xi:include href="install-guide/quick.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback><para>Quick Guide Missing</para></xi:fallback> </xi:include> --> <xi:include href="install-guide/software.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Section Missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> </chapter> <chapter id="complete-install"> <title>Complete Installation</title> <xi:include href="install-guide/os.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Section Missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> <xi:include href="install-guide/oracle.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback><para>Section Missing</para></xi:fallback> </xi:include> <xi:include href="install-guide/postgres.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Section Missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> <xi:include href="install-guide/aolserver4.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Section Missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> <xi:include href="install-guide/openacs.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Section Missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> <xi:include href="install-guide/win2kinstall.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Section missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> <xi:include href="install-guide/macinstall.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Section missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> </chapter> <xi:include href="install-guide/configuring.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Section missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> <xi:include href="install-guide/upgrade.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Section missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> <xi:include href="install-guide/maintenance.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Section missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> <xi:include href="install-guide/database-maintenance.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Section missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> <xi:include href="install-guide/recovery.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Section missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> <xi:include href="install-guide/red-hat.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Section missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> <xi:include href="install-guide/other-software.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Section missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> <xi:include href="install-guide/credits.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Credits Section Missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> </part> <part id="acs-package-dev"> <title>For OpenACS Package Developers</title> <partintro> <para>Tutorials and reference material for creating new OpenACS packages. </para> </partintro> <chapter id="tutorial"> <title>Development Tutorial</title> <xi:include href="developers-guide/tutorial.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Section missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> <xi:include href="developers-guide/tutorial-db.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Section missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> <xi:include href="developers-guide/tutorial-pages.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Section missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> <xi:include href="developers-guide/tutorial-debug.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Section missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> </chapter> <xi:include href="developers-guide/tutorial-advanced.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Section missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> <chapter id="dev-guide"> <title>Development Reference</title> <xi:include href="developers-guide/packages.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Section missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> <xi:include href="developers-guide/objects.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Section missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> <xi:include href="developers-guide/rp.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Section missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> <xi:include href="developers-guide/db-api.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Section missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> <xi:include href="developers-guide/templates.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Section missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> <xi:include href="developers-guide/permissions.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Section missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> <xi:include href="developers-guide/subsites.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Section missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> <xi:include href="developers-guide/parties.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Section missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> <xi:include href="developers-guide/permissions-tediously-explained.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Section missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> <xi:include href="developers-guide/object-identity.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Section missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> <xi:include href="developers-guide/programming-with-aolserver.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Section missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> <xi:include href="developers-guide/form-builder.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Section missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> </chapter> <chapter id="eng-standards"> <title>Engineering Standards</title> <xi:include href="engineering-standards/style-guide.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Section missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> <xi:include href="engineering-standards/cvs.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Section missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> <xi:include href="engineering-standards/eng-standards-versioning.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Section missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> <xi:include href="engineering-standards/constraint-naming.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Section missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> <xi:include href="engineering-standards/filenaming.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Section missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> <xi:include href="engineering-standards/plsql.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Section missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> <xi:include href="engineering-standards/variables.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Section missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> <xi:include href="engineering-standards/auto-testing.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Section missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> </chapter> <chapter id="doc-standards"> <title>Documentation Standards</title> <xi:include href="engineering-standards/docbook-primer.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Section missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> <xi:include href="engineering-standards/psgml-mode.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Section missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> <xi:include href="engineering-standards/nxml-mode.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Section missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> <xi:include href="engineering-standards/design-template.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Section missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> <xi:include href="engineering-standards/requirements-template.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Section missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> </chapter> <xi:include href="developers-guide/i18n.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Section missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> <xi:include href="developers-guide/cvs.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>CVS Section missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> </part> <part id="acs-plat-dev"> <title>For OpenACS Platform Developers</title> <chapter id="kernel-doc"> <title>Kernel Documentation</title> <sect1 id="kernel-overview"> <title>Overview</title> <itemizedlist> <listitem> <para> The <emphasis>OpenACS Kernel</emphasis>, which handles system-wide necessities such as metadata, security, users and groups, subsites, and package management and deployment. </para> </listitem> <listitem> <para> The <emphasis>OpenACS Core</emphasis>, which comprises all the other packages that ship with the kernel and are most frequently needed by users, such as templating, forums, and user registration/management. The packages tend to be developed and distributed with the kernel. </para> </listitem> <listitem> <para> <emphasis>OpenACS Application packages</emphasis>, which typically provide user-level web services built on top of the Kernel and Core. Application packages are developed separately from the Kernel, and are typically released independently of it. </para> </listitem> </itemizedlist> <para> This document provides a high-level overview of the kernel package. <ulink url="index.html">Documentation for other packages on this server</ulink> </para> </sect1> <xi:include href="kernel/object-system-req.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Section missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> <xi:include href="kernel/object-system-design.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Section missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> <xi:include href="kernel/permissions-requirements.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Section missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> <xi:include href="kernel/permissions-design.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Section missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> <xi:include href="kernel/groups-requirements.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Section missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> <xi:include href="kernel/groups-design.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Section missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> <xi:include href="kernel/subsites-requirements.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Section missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> <xi:include href="kernel/subsites-design.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Section missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> <xi:include href="kernel/apm-requirements.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Section missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> <xi:include href="kernel/apm-design.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Section missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> <xi:include href="kernel/db-api.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Section missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> <xi:include href="kernel/i18n-requirements.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Section missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> <xi:include href="kernel/security-requirements.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Section missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> <xi:include href="kernel/security-design.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Section missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> <xi:include href="kernel/security-notes.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Section missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> <xi:include href="kernel/rp-requirements.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Section missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> <xi:include href="kernel/rp-design.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Section missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> <xi:include href="kernel/tcl-doc.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Section missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> <xi:include href="kernel/bootstrap-acs.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Section missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> <xi:include href="kernel/ext-auth.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>Section missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> </chapter> <xi:include href="releasing-openacs.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback>'Releasing OpenACS' missing</xi:fallback> </xi:include> </part> <index></index> </book>