Created in: 2006-01-14 12:45:35
Author: martin
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Last updated: 2006-01-14 12:45:35
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Anyone that has browsed over the jLibrary 1.0b4 new features could has seen that there is a brand new JCR browser. Well, this browser is really simple, but at least it serve us to browse over Jackrabbit compatible repositories. As Magnolia is a product that uses Jackrabbit as its backend, someone has asked me if it should be possible to browse Magnolia-based repositories using jLibrary. Well, the short answer for this question is no, but the long answer is yes, but it requires some work :-)
The problem is that jLibrary does not includes support for berkeley DB persistence manager ( the final version will include it ), so you have to add those libraries to open Magnolia repositories. The steps are really simple and are described here:
And now, what?
It wasn't hard, wasn't it? Well, now, what can you do with jLibrary againstMagnolia
repositories? Really not much. You can browse repository information, see the
internal structure, look at magnolia guts i.e. learn how it storages information,
browse nodetypes, see page properties, etc... Well, this also can be useful
if you want to use Magnolia repository data directly from your applications
using a JSR-170 compliant API.
Well, there are many possibilities starting from this point. Maybe someone could be interesting on adding a bridge between Jackrabbit and jLibrary. I don't have enough time for this, but I'm sure that it won't be a hard task. So, doing this you could have all the advantages of jLibrary for managing your Magnolia repositories, and all the advantages of Magnolia CMB but easily handling information with jLibrary from your desktop.
I have done the first step. :-) Any volunteers?