Hi, Every now and then I see people running into issues with the current limitations in modifying node types in Jackrabbit. The recent JCR-954 issue also highlighted a similar problem with referential integrity checks. For various reasons the strict integrity checks in Jackrabbit end up hurting valid use cases.
The proper solution to the problem would be to actually implement the missing node type modification support and to optimize the use cases in JCR-954, but it seems to me that we are at least a year if not more away from such solutions. Thus I would like to float the idea of a "raw mode" in Jackrabbit. The "raw mode" would be a session-level attribute, enabled during login, that would disable all node type and reference checks for that session. The mode would only be available to administrator users, perhaps even only when no other sessions are accessing the repository. BR, Jukka Zitting
