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>Hi Robert,
>Very much appreciate the guidance here.
>After another day of RTFM’ing, some followup questions.
>
>
>From: Robert Munteanu <[email protected]>
>Reply-To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>Date: Friday, December 12, 2014 at 2:15 AM
>To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>Subject: Re: Production ready deployment options for a sling JCR?
>
>
>>Hi Bruce,
>>
>>On Thu, 2014-12-11 at 21:15 +0000, Bruce Edge wrote:
>>>1. Is the combination of sling/jackbabbit released in any production
>>>ready
>>>incarnation?
>>>Or, is one expected to use Adobe¹s CQ5 suite for production work?
>>
>>While I myself work exclusively with CQ in production, I know for a fact
>>that many use Sling+JCR in production.
>>
>>Not sure what you mean by 'released in a production ready incarnation'
>>though.
>>
>>
>
>I suppose that is a naïve question where OSGI is concerned. The question
>should be directed to the release status for each component. It makes
>more sense now as I see it as a set of blocks rather than a monolithic
>project.
>Coming from the monolithic project world that is spring, this is a new
>viewpoint that takes some getting used to.
>
>>If you are looking for a launchpad release, people typically
>>build their own launchpads, based on their needs. I personally would
>>start with the latest SNAPSHOT launchpad and customise it for my needs.
>>
>>
>
>Does this refer to modifying
>./launchpad/builder/src/main/bundles/list.xml to contain the desired
>services?
>Still reading up on run modes.
>
>Will this mechanism prevail long term or is the goal to move to something
>like the crankstart launcher, which, as I read, may eliminate the need
>for run modes. [3]
>
>>
>>>2. What exactly is the JCR under
>>>https://github.com/apache/sling.git
>>><https://github.com/apache/sling.git>
>>>trunk?
>>>I see components of each in the source tree:
>>>./launchpad/testing/target/launchpad-bundles/resources/bundles.jackrabbi
>>>t/1
>>>5:
>>>derby-10.5.3.0_1.jar
>>>org.apache.sling.jcr.jackrabbit.server-2.1.3-SNAPSHOT.jar
>>
>>For Jackrabbit 2.x we provide a single OSGi bundle wrapping all the
>>Jackrabbit jars since they don't play nicely with OSGI ( IIRC ). Derby
>>is also used as the default persistence engine for Jackrabbit.
>>
>>
>>>./launchpad/testing/target/launchpad-bundles/resources/bundles.oak/15:
>>>guava-15.0.jar oak-blob-1.0.0.jar
>>>oak-commons-1.0.0.jar oak-core-1.0.0.jar oak-lucene-1.0.0.jar
>>>oak-mk-1.0.0.jar oak-mk-api-1.0.0.jar oak-mk-remote-1.0.0.jar
>>>org.apache.sling.jcr.oak.server-0.0.2-SNAPSHOT.jar
>>
>>These are the oak jars. We only provide the oak-server bundle, the
>>others come directly from the Oak project, as they support OSGi.
>>
>>>Is it jackrabbit, or oak?
>>
>>Note that the two directories you mentioned are specific to different
>>run modes:
>>
>>- 'bundles.jackrabbit' -> jackrabbit run mode ( default )
>>- 'bundles.oak' -> oak
>>
>>
>
>got it.
>
>So, this in the default sling.properties:
>sling.run.mode.install.options=jackrabbit,oak
>implies that both jackrabbit and oak run modes are to be installed such
>that either is selectable at runtime?
>
>>
>>So they won't run at the same time, and by default you get Jackrabbit
>>2.x .
>>
>>>How does https://github.com/apache/jackrabbit-oak.git fit into
>>>sling/trunk?
>>>Or, does one need to use the sling-oak-it-1.7 build, (SLING-2788) to use
>>>oak as the JCR?
>>
>>See above, we include the jars into the launchpad in the oak run mode.
>>You need to use -Dsling.run.modes=oak to choose Oak [1]. But that's not
>>working perfectly yet, which is why we excluded it from the Sling 7
>>release.
>>
>>
>
>What’s the status of the oak integration in this context? Is there a
>roadmap for this integration work?
>Is this tracked in the sling mailing list or elsewhere?
>
>The oak list is probably more relevant here but I feel like it’s a
>difficult time to start a new JCR project now as oak is purported to fix
>all of jackrabbit’s ills, yet is not ready for prime time use.
>
>>
>>
>>>3. Can sling be configured to use the S3DataStore BloblStore back end?
>>>This is a requirement for us. We need our assets to reside on S3, not
>>>EBS.
>>>I²m fine with requiring a MongoMK as well for node storage, but given
>>>the
>>>size of the content, we need S3 storage for the bulk of the data.
>>
>>For Jackrabbit 2.x you can create the sling/jackrabbit/repository.xml
>>file before starting Sling for the first time [2] and it will use your
>>configuration instead of the default one.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>Robert
>>
>>[1]:
>>http://sling.apache.org/documentation/bundles/sling-settings-org-apache-s
>>ling-settings.html
>>[2]:
>>http://sling.apache.org/documentation/tutorials-how-tos/jackrabbit-persis
>>tence.html#reconfiguring-jackrabbit
>>
>>
>
>[3] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SLING/Sling+NG+Launcher
>>
>>
