If you are new to eXist, we recommend to at least scan through the following documents to get an overview of the most important features:
Also, there are some articles, tutorials and blog posts which may provide valuable information.
We recommend to have a look at the Quick Start first, then maybe continue to read about XQuery support, in particular eXist-specific extensions and features.
| Quick Start: | getting started with eXist. |
| Ant Tasks: | how to automate tasks with Ant. |
| External Articles: | Links to external articles, tutorials and blog posts. |
| Atom Publishing Protocol: | how to configure and interact over the Atom Publishing Protocol to treat your collections as Atom feeds. |
| Backup and Restore: | explains how to backup/restore your database contents. |
| Building eXist: | compiling and building eXist distributions, using the Subversion repository. |
| Cluster configuration: | how to configure cluster environment. |
| Configuring Indexes: | how to configure specific indexes. |
| Configuring Triggers: | how to configure triggers. |
| Deployment: | eXist supports different alternatives for server deployment. |
| Developer's Guide: | describes the various interfaces: XML:DB API, XML-RPC, REST, SOAP. |
| JMX | Experimental support for Java Management Extensions (JMX) |
| Developer's Notes: | a few notes on how to use the various tools; SVN, eclipse, Ant, PMD, JDepend, ... |
| Developer's Guide to Modularized Indexes: | describes, through a use case, how modularized indexes work. |
| Java Admin Client: | describes command-line usage of the Java client |
| LDAP Security Manager: | configuring eXist to use LDAP for users and groups. |
| Security: | creating/changing users, passwords and resource permissions. |
| Server Configuration: | configuration options for the server. |
| Tuning Guide: | provides a few rules to consider when tuning the db and the XQueries |
| Validation: | validate xml documents. |
| WebDAV: | how to setup your favourite webDAV enabled application. |
| XACML: | xQuery access control. |
| XInclude: | xInclude support in eXist. |
| XQuery: | current status, supported features and extensions. |
| XQuery Update Extensions: | eXist provides a number of extensions to update document fragments from within an XQuery. |
Further documentation can be found in the Wiki. Among other things, have a look at:
