On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Nigel Sim<[email protected]> wrote: > ...In my use case for Jackrabbit I do not have a direct use for paths. I just > have object with properties and relationships which I want to store, and > later retrieve via searching those attributes. > > Is there a way/class/factory I can use to auto generate a unique path > property?...
Using time-based paths has worked well for me in similar cases, something like /content/2008/12/31/09/42/03/0001 where you generate a path based on the timestamp when the object is inserted. The trailing 0001 is a global counter that prevents collisions when several objects are inserted within the same second. With Jackrabbit it is not recommended for a node to have more than about 10'000 child nodes, the above convention will also avoid that. -Bertrand
