Values in oak-core

[Michael Dürig]

Hi,
I worked on OAK-33: Values in oak-core today and came up with a default 
implementation of Scalar [1]. Some things, especially in the area of 
binary handling, are still unfinished and marked with todo.

Some thoughts:

- I think we should add a method to PropertyState for accessing the 
value as Scalar. However this would introduce a circular dependency 
between oak-core and oak-mk. How should we proceed here?

- Does it really make sense to allow for multiple Scalar 
implementations? Shouldn't we just have one final class for that?

Michael

[1] 
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/jackrabbit/oak/trunk/oak-core/src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/oak/ScalarImpl.java?view=markup