JCR Content Management Jukka Zitting
Agenda Introduction to JCR Introduction to Jackrabbit Setting up and using a repository Content modelling Advanced features Extensibility
What is JCR? Introduction Setting up and using a repository Content modelling Advanced features
Why should I care? ”JDBC for hierarchical content” –Alternative to object-relational mappings –Flexible schemas, unstructured content ”File system on steroids” –What if we really did have WinFS? –Transactions, metadata, full text search, etc. Intuitive support for XML and WebDAV
JCR Features
What is Apache Jackrabbit? Open source content repository for Java –Hierarchical content storage –Full text search, versioning, transactions, etc. JSR 170 reference implementation Apache TLP and 1.0 release in 2006 Current release 1.3
Jackrabbit Components Jackrabbit content repository RMI support for JCR WebDAV support for JCR Jackrabbit JCA connector Full text indexing (Excel, Word, PDF, etc.) etc.
Deployment models
Jackrabbit architecture