First of all, my apologizes if someone considers that this is not the best site to inform about this. But, I thought, that being an open source document management system application, and being based on jackrabbit maybe it could of interest for someone.
I have released jLibrary 1.0beta4 (http://jlibrary.sourceforge.net , http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/jlibrary ). Well, I'm not going to talk here about the features, possibilities, use cases, bla bla bla. If you want to see it, simply browse to the web. I'm going to post simply comments about the project that maybe some could find useful, and so this post won't be only marketing spam :D * Apache jackrabbit has fulfilled all my expectactives and even more. When first I choose it to replace my old backend, I never had thought of such stability, performance, and robustness. The change has been really a good surprise and a great experience. * I have migrated jLibrary from a hibernate+ehcache+lucene+filters(poi,pdfbox,textmining) to a Jackrabbit based backend. It has been a really success. Hibernate was a really nightmare in comparison to jackrabbit. All that nasty session management, all the persistence work done by hand, .. people, believe me, if you want a hibernate based backend that suits good to a repository managed architecture, then, do the change! The performance, is, for my tests, much better. I can assure from this fact that jackrabbit is faster than hibernate, it would be an idiot if I said that. But I can say that for my case, it runs faster. * I had the honour to contribute some text filters to jackrabbit. Those text filters were originaly on jLibrary and now I have externalized them to Jackrabbit. I hope to do more contributions as I have liberated many stress with this release :) * The WebDAV server works fine for me. jLibrary uses it, and I have tried several webdav clients. Well, it isn't the better WebDAV client on the world as it has been discussed on this mailing list, but it do the simple work. * The most important problem I'm facing currently is that some text filtering process are really slow. Specifically, PDFBox library is really slow, and so when someone tried to index a file, the index process takes some time. Marcel did a great hack on this to avoid jackrabbit freezing on node indexing. I think that the bug that makes jackrabbit to index four! times a document has not been solved yet, but I think that with the recent system index externalization it will be solved soon. Well, I think that I have no more to say. Thanks to the jackrabbit team for the help. I will continue to spamize this mailing list as I want to release a final version concurrently with Jackrabbit final version. I hope you like jLibrary as much as I like Jackrabbit. Regards, Martin
