Openutils-mgnlutils is a collection of generic Magnolia utilities and extensions.

The 1.0 release essentially offers a new jsp taglibrary with EL functions which are fully explained in the taglibdoc documentation and javadocs.

EL functions can be used in jsp templates or also in freemarker, by exposing the static methods of the it.openutils.mgnlutils.el.MgnlUtilsElFunctions class.

Download latest version of openutils-mgnlutils from sourceforge and then extract all jar files into the WEB-INF/lib folder in your project.

Integrating magnolia utils is as simple as adding these few lines to your pom.xml

<dependency>
  <groupId>net.sourceforge.openutils</groupId>
  <artifactId>openutils-mgnlutils</artifactId>
  <version>[latest version]</version>
</dependency>

Maven will download all required dependencies for you.