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Jackrabbit Branch Development / Integration
In this section I want to summarize the process of the content repository integration.
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- When we have an external content Repository it's easy to connect third party tools to the repository (i.e. CMS Systems)
- If we have a generic JCR implementation we can simply add different content repositories
- Content Repositories allow easier maintenance of complex content structures, as contents are no longer stored in different tables (Content, Resource, ElectronicText ...).
- Content Repositories can provide revisioning of contents and content modifications
What has been done
- Created a new independent JCR module in the framework
- Start the Jackrabbit Container on ofbiz startup
- Created a Repository Factory
- Created a Jackrabbit - Ofbiz architecture proposal:
- (Implementation of the proposal is done and will be committed after review) done @Rev: *1094250:
- * You can create new repository nodes
* Nodes are represented in a tree structure
* Nodes can store Text (Text, HTML, FTL ....) and File content
* There is a separate tree to store files and text content because the repository don't allow to mix them up, but this absolutely transparent for the user
* Each new node is linked to a content entity
* The link in the content entity can be used for maintainable reasons (permission checks, user specific content, content status etc.)
* Everything can be tested under Examples --> Jackrabbit Sandbox
- * You can create new repository nodes
Still to be done
Ideas
Table of Content
- Initial integration of the Jackrabbit repository - features and architecture description
- Design documents
- Configuration document
- Requirements and Ideas
- Current DB based content implementation vs JCR based content implementation
- Propagate and enforce OfBiz permissions, roles and users to JCR
- Expose the JCR part via WebDAV (and/or some RESTish service)
- JCR contents shall always be revisioned
- Prevent duplication of properties between OfBiz and JCR
- Explore Content Addressable Storage CAS options to prevent duplicate contents
- Use this opportunity to create a simple workflow for OfBiz CMS Contents (or externalize to a CMS that provides a workflow)