For Developers

With a flexible formatter concept, OpenCms provides loose coupling of content and presentation that allows the content manager to switch between different content representations on-the-fly, without having knowledge about the underlying technic.

Formatters are JSPs intended to render the output for a specific type of content. Typically formatters are part of a module and located somewhere below the /system/ folder. A formatter and its settings can be configured within a resource type named "Formatter configuration". For more details, please have a look at:

/system/modules/com.alkacon.bootstrap.dev.demo/formatters/

Here you will find some formatters and the configurations belonging to it.