Congrats. Is your JCR Browser available standalone (without your Jlibrary stuff)?
BTW, Hibernate != Jackrabbit. STAY METAL! Roy Russo JBoss Portal Developer o: 404-442-2056 x1223 c: 678-661-1760 AIM: geekjava http://jboss.org/jbossBlog/blog/rrusso/ >-----Original Message----- >From: Martin Perez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 12:53 PM >To: jackrabbit-dev@incubator.apache.org >Subject: [announce] Jackrabbit based Open Source DMS: jLibrary > >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 >
