Benefits of JCR support in Lenya

Benefits for Lenya project developers (some of them potential)

• Independence from back-end implementations
• Smaller codebase
• Reduced maintenance costs
• Focus on front-end development (features)
• Marketing
  • Attract companies with IT affinity and focus on integration (which is a fundamental strength of Cocoon+Lenya)
  • Avoid the appearance that Lenya is a self-contained, monolithic product
  • Support the appearance that the Lenya community follows technology and market trends
• Standard vocabulary
• Attract developers with JCR knowledge
• Connections to other communities (Jackrabbit, Sling)
• Existing development tools
  • JCR plug-in for Eclipse - e.g. edit the website in Eclipse
• New out-of-the-box features
  • WebDAV
  • Content repository browser
  • Queries (XPath, SQL)
  • Access control on the repository level
  • Transactions
  • Content export and import
    

Benefits for companies using Lenya

• Reusability of knowledge, tools, infrastructure
• Integration in existing JCR infrastructures
• Meets potential enterprise policies re. JCR support
• Avoid vendor lock-in
• Shared vocabulary for developers
• Increased independence, reduced risk