What's new in JSR-283 aka Content Repository API for Java Technology

1. Introducing JCR 2.0
What’s new in JSR-283
aug-2009
David Nuescheler

2. Agenda
 A Content Repository?
 JCR History, Adoption
 Top 10 New Features
 Future Plans

3. JCR.
“The API should be a standard,
implementation independent,
way to access content bi-
directionally on a granular level
to a content repository.”

4. A Content Repository!?
CONTENT REPOSITORY
FEATURES OF AN FEATURES OF A
RDBMS FILESYSTEM
Transactions, Query, Structure, Integrity Binaries, Hierarchy, Locking, Access Control
+
ALL THE OTHER
GOOD STUFF
YOU ALWAYS WANTED
Unstructured, Versioning, Full-text,
Multi-Value, Sort-Order, Observation

5. When to use?
permissions binaries
search JCR read-most
versions unstructured
5

6. Introducing JCR Catalyst
WEB apache
JCR
APP sling

7. Industry Standards
170
283
7

8. Tracking success
8

9. Known Compliant Repositories
(* partially using 3rd party connectors)
Exo Microsoft
Apache Jackrabbit Oracle XML DB ECMS Platform Sharepoint OpenText Livelink
Day CRX IBM FileNet P8 Xythos Repository Alfresco ECM Vignette V7
Interwoven Saperion +hund
reds o
Repository IBM CM / Domino EMC Documentum Archive registe f TCKs
red

10. Some known JCR Applications
Fast
BEA Portal Sun Oracle WebCenter Enterprise Search
JBoss Portal Interface 21
OpenPortal
Day Communique Spring Framework
magnolia WCMS DAM
Apache Sling Day Communique
Alfresco ECMS Mindquarry Collab
Collaboration Apache Tapestry
QSLabs
Apache Compliance Day Communiqué
Cocoon WCMS IBM FileNet
Artifactory medic-2-medic WebSiteManager
Apache James Maven Proxy mapofmedicine
Exo
ECMS Platform TYPO3
GX WebManager v5.0 WCM
InfoQ Hippo Liferay
Nuxeo ECM Online Community CMS Enterprise Portal
Jahia Sakai
Percussion Framework E-learning
Rhythmix QuickWCM Sourcemix
WCMS Lutece Sourcemix
Portal

11. Current Status

12. Backwards Compatible.
NEW
100%
& IMP
BACKWA ROVE
D
COMPAT RDS
IBLE
Binary Compatible
JSR-170 (JCR v1.0) Applications
do not require modification
Mixed environment supported (1.0 & 2.0 Apps)

13. Reorganized.
NEW
100DEL & BINDING
& IMP
BACKWA ROVE
D D
%
COMPAT RDS IMP ROVE
&
IBLE NEW
MO
Completely re-organized and clarified
Specification
Separate Content Repository model section
Removed a lot of the Java Language specification

14. Bundled.
NEW
100DEL & BINDING
& IMP
BACKWA ROVE
D D
%
COMPAT RDS IMP ROVE
&
IBLE NEW
MO NEW & IMPROVED
OSGI BUNDLE
Shipped jcr-2.0.jar is an OSGI Bundle
Ready to deploy in an OSGI Container

15. Favorites.
10

16. Query extensions
AQM
JQOM
NEW
#1 QUER
& IMP
ROVE SQL
2.0
D
Y Abstract Query Model
Java Query Object Model (Java Binding)
SQL Bindings

17. Query extensions
+JOIN
NEW
& IMP
#1 QUER
ROVE
2.0
D Revamped Result-Set to allow for multiple nodes
Y New and Improved query capabilities

18. Query extensions
-XPATH *
*well, still available but deprecated
NEW
& IMP
Not enough support from the EG
#1 QUER
ROVE
2.0
D
JQOM allows for many implementations
Y Jackrabbit / CRX will support XPATH

19. Access Control Management
+ACL
+POLICY
NEW & IM
PROVED
#2 ACL
2.0 Allows to set ACL and Access Control Policies

20. Retention Policy & Hold
+RETENTION
+LEGAL HOLD
NEW
& IMP
ROVE
#3 RM
2.0
D
Support for interaction with RM systems
Allows setting and introspection of Retention
Policies and Holds

21. Simple versioning
+LINEAR
VERSIONING
2.0
ED
NEW & IMPROV
#4 SIMPLE Simplified Versioning Model to allow
VERSIONING for ease of adoption.

22. Lifecycle Management
+BPM
Allows to express and introspect Lifecycle status
NEW & IM and transitions.
PROVED
#5 LIFECYCLE
2.0

23. Nodetype Registration
+REGISTER
NODETYPES
NEW
& IMP
ROVE
#6 NODE
2.0
D
MANAGE TYPE
MENT Standardized way of registering new and modify
registered Nodetypes

24. New property & nodetypes
+mix:title
+URL +mix:created
+mix:lastModified
+WEAK REFERENCE +mix:language
+DECIMAL +mix:etag
+nt:address
NEW & IMPROVED
#7 NEW PROPERTY
& NODETYPES
2.0 Things we missed in JCR 1.0 applications

25. Workspace Management
+CREATE &
REMOVE WS
2.0
PROVED
NEW & IM
#8 WORKSPACE Standardized way of create and remove
MANAGEMENT workspaces

26. Shareable nodes
+GRAPH
Multi-filing. Nodes can have multiple parents.
2.0
NEW & IMPROVED
#9 SHAREABLE
NODES

27. Journalling Observation
+DELTA SINCE?
NEW
& IMP what changed since I last checked?
#10 JOU
ROVE
2.0
D
RNALLIN
OBSERVA G
TION

28. What’s next?

29. CMIS Proposers
MSindings
D B t
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Proor JC
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30. CMIS
 About CMIS:
Least common denominator document management interoperability
specification.
OASIS Technical Committee.

31. CMIS @ Day
 Great for our DM connectors
 Layered easily on top of JCR (since it is a functional subset)
 Apache Chemistry

32. JCR 2.1
sion
misned
Sublan
P 009
2
Scripting, Ease of Use.