Hi all After reading the JSR-170 spec and doing some initial development with Jackrabbit 1.4, I decided to look at JSR-283. I note that it contains major changes including an entirely new query model and a standard interface for authorisation.
I was surprised and quite disappointed to see XPath deprecated, because I regarded use of the "document view" throughout the spec as its most elegant feature. I'm not meaning to start another argument on this list - I see there are already a few in the archives - but I just wanted to add my voice to those in support of XPath. I recall there was a comment made that Jackrabbit will continue to support XPath and that its support may in fact become more powerful by being built on top of the JQOM. Is this true? On the subject of authorisation, I wonder whether I should use 1.4 - and use my own properties and AccessManager for access control - or jump to version 1.5 (or higher). How stable is 1.5, and what version would people recommend for a project that will probably be "live" by the end of this year? Thanks for any input. Later Charlie
