I actually wrote a little prototype app using JackRabbit late last year. Its a really nifty framework. Just a different way of thinking. I think this is a really good idea..
Andrew On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 10:33 PM, David E Jones<[email protected]> wrote: > > There has been a little bit of discussion about this, but not recently. > Thanks for bringing it up as it certainly applies to this discussion. > > I did a little reading on JackRabbit... it's great to see it is SO far > along! In fact, it looks like it is far enough along that we should probably > just go for it... IMO. It supports versioning, JTA transaction, WebDAV for > editors that support/like that, and all sorts of other goodies. > > -David > > > On Jul 1, 2009, at 6:16 PM, Mike Rose wrote: > >> Have you folks looked into JSR-170, the Java Content Repository spec? It >> covers these classes of use cases pretty thoroughly and there are some very >> compelling implementations out there. Alfresco is probably the most notable >> and Apache JackRabbit is pretty impressive as well. >> >> Mike >> >> (new to the list, please forgive me if I've violated some protocol known >> to long-term list members...) >> >> On Jul 1, 2009, at 8:12 PM, Adrian Crum wrote: >> >>> >>> --- On Wed, 7/1/09, David E Jones <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> From: David E Jones <[email protected]> >>>> Subject: Re: webslinger quick start guide? >>>> To: [email protected] >>>> Date: Wednesday, July 1, 2009, 2:45 PM >>>> >>>> This is an interesting overview and while I'm not sure why >>>> I hadn't thought along these lines before, at least it's >>>> through my thick skull now... >>>> >>>> I asked Adam about how this would deploy on multiple >>>> servers with the stuff in the filesystem versus the >>>> database, and I think what you've written Ean is the >>>> answer. >>>> >>>> Why not treat a source repo (either plain SVN or something >>>> more exotic like GIT) like the database? Each app server >>>> would read from and write to the source repo just like it >>>> would a database record. If SVN or GIT support 2-phase >>>> commits we could probably even do write operations in the a >>>> transaction that includes connections to both data stores. >>> >>> Why not have the repositories use the OFBiz database as their data store? >>> >>> -Adrian >>> >>> >>> >>> >> > >
