Jackrabbit

David's Model - A guide for blissful content modeling

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David Nuescheler, the JCR spec lead, have posted an interesting page in the Jackrabbit wiki on content modeling with JCR . This is the David's own opinion but it will certainly become more and more valuable for the JCR/Jackrabbit community. He gives in this paper seven simple rules for modeling content oriented application (based on a JCR repository).

Let's share this kind of experience and we will see the result later maybe in some usefull Content/JCR design patterns.

Sun Open Portal & CMS features

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Sun Open Portal will soon have a Content Management System (CMS) infrastructure and an open cms out of the box . This CMS, currently implemented as Document Management System, is JSR170 (jcr standards) compliant and uses Apache's Jackrabbit and its Object Content Mapping (OCM) . The interesting part is that Document Management functionality is exposed via tag libraries where the tags can be dragged and dropped in portlet page and developer can have his own CMS presentation . For this we have netbeans plugin . Check this out at CMSDemo . This CMS solution is in progress and we plan to enhance it further for Article Management , Jobs Management and Ad Management.

I'm glad to know the second "official" OCM reference. this is still in progress and I hope to see the Sun portal team more imply in our OCM framework.

A special thanks to Ruchi .

End of incubation

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Due to the lack of interest in the Graffito project, The Graffito OCM tools is moving into Jackrabbit which is certainly the more appropriate project for this kind of framework inside the ASF world. This change will certainly increase the community size. Anyway, it seems that more and more content developers are interested by this kind of framework and it is nice to see sites like InfoQ using our OCM tools (Thanks to Alex).
This is great pleasure to join the Jackrabbit team and continue my work on this Object Content Mapping framework. I will try to give more and more technical details on this framework in the upcoming months.
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