Hi, Am Donnerstag, den 13.03.2008, 18:28 -0700 schrieb Tobias Bocanegra: > > >> 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? > afaik there are already some drafts of implementing the JCR SPI using > rjax. but this would rather be a jackrabbit GSoC topic, right?
Yes, this is probably right. Regards Felix > > regards, toby
