On 13 Mar 2008, at 15:49, Felix Meschberger wrote:
How about defining a formal remote protocol for JCR instead? A JCR
explorer is of course a useful tool, but having a defined, formal
protocol to interact with a JCR repository would be ideal. I'm
thinking something similar to webdav but more appropriate for JCR
repositories.
I am not sure, whether I understand you correctly. Currently the
Jackrabbit protocol has an RMI library, which allows plain-JCR
remoting
over RMI. In addition there is a simple WebDAV servlet, which allows
filesystem-like access over WebDAV to the repository and there is a
JCR
WebDAV servlet, which in fact remotes the JCR API over WebDAV using
defined WebDAV functionality such as DASL etc.
The webdav protocol doesn't map fully to the JCR data model. And RMI
is not really that useful when the client is not a Java client.
But I guess it opens up a lot of questions, I guess. How do you send
JCR data over the wire? XML or JSON?
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Torgeir Veimo
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