Thomas, We are building this kind of framework : http://incubator.apache.org/graffito/jcr-mapping/index.html. This is still under dev. let me know if you need more information.
Christophe On 3/23/06, Thomas Scheffler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > this is my first mail to the dev-list. I was watching the progress of the > development for a while now and was really happy to see jackrabbit became > TLP. > I think after this big milestone for all of you it's a nice starting point for > me to develop something on top. Allready playing with Trails a bit I was > curious if somebody is interested in developing a mapping from plain old java > objects (POJO) to JCR nodes. Maybe such a solution already exists. Here is > what it should go. > You define a class (bean). The bean represents a part of your applications > datamodel. Via reflection (and use of annotations) a nodetype for this class > is generated (and registred). Every instance of this class can than be mapped > to JCR nodes or vice versa. > This will greatly simplify the development process of applications I think. > The whole part of node interaction can be expressed in Java, too. This way you > can abstract you application logic a bit from the JCR layer, even though the > layer itself is an abstraction layer. > I'm very interested in finding out if solutions like this are possible, > practical or maybe already there. What do you think about it? > > Closing first mail and opening first thread. > > regards > > Thomas > -- Best regards, Christophe
