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Welcome to the Apache Jackrabbit Wiki

Apache Jackrabbit is a project at the Apache Software Foundation. We are in dire need of better documentation, so feel free to add to these pages as you learn more about Jackrabbit.

Community

• JcrMeetupApril2008: JCR community gathering in Amsterdam on April 8th, 2008

Features

• PersistenceManagerFAQ: Persistence Manager configuration

• DataStore: How to configure the binary data store

• NodeTypeRegistry: Registry of commonly used node types

• NamespaceRegistry: Registry of commonly used namespace mappings

• Clustering: How to set up and use clustering

• Search: How to set up and use search

• CacheManager: Cache configuration

• BackupAndMigration: How to backup a repository or migrate to another configuration

• ContribTips: Help regarding the contrib projects

Links

• JcrLinks: Links to articles and applications based on JCR or Jackrabbit

• Sling: Web application framework based on REST principles. Sling uses a JCR repository

• Apache Wiki Farm: Other Apache wikis

• Dev Mailing List Archive: Search for answers in the mailing list archive

• Mailing Lists: Post questions in the mailing list

FAQ

• QuestionsAndAnswers: Simple forum for asking questions about Jackrabbit

• ExamplesPage: Solutions for common problems

• Performance: Q. and A. about Jackrabbit perfomance

• JcrSessionHandling: How to (re)use JCR sessions

Blueprints

• DavidsModel: A guide for blissful content modeling. Seven rules to avoid common mistakes content modeling mistakes.

Future Plans

• RoadMap: High level roadmap for Jackrabbit

• Proposed JCR 2.0 API Changes: Changes between the JCR 1.0 API and the proposed JCR 2.0 API as defined in JSR 283.

Deployment

• JackrabbitOnJBoss: How to deploy a Jackrabbit server with JCA, expose the local repository through JNDI and WebDAV to remote clients and connect remotely from a Java program, or from a command line tool (contrib/jcr-commands).

• JackRabbitOnWeblogic: How to deploy the Jackrabbit server on Weblogic, expose the repository over WebDAV, use JNDI with Oracle.

• JackRabbitOnTomcat: How to use the Jackrabbit with Tomcat, WebDAV, JNDI and Oracle.

• JackRabbitOnSunWebServer: How to configure the Sun Java System Web Server with Jackrabbit (Model 2)

WebDAV

• WebDAV: If you plan on using Jackrabbit through WebDAV. Useful for existing Jakarta Slide users or other WebDAV repository users thinking about migrating to Jackrabbit.

Historical

• BackupTool: Design document of the 2006 Google Summer of Code project (written by Nicolas Toper, mentored by Jukka Zitting).

• JNDI: Patching the Oracle file system and persistence manager for use with JNDI (no longer required with Jackrabbit 1.4)

Special Wiki Pages

• TitleIndex: A list of all pages on this wiki.

• HelpContents: A basic guide to the MoinMoin wiki (including information about wiki syntax).

• WordIndex: A list of all the words that appear in the titles of the pages on this wiki, with links to pages that include that word.

• FindPage: A full-text search of the wiki.

• WantedPages: All the "broken links" -- a list of all the pages on this wiki that are linked to, but do not exist.

• OrphanedPages: All pages on this wiki that are not linked to from anywhere else (and are thus very hard to reach).

• RandomPage: Generates a list of 75 random pages on this wiki.

• PageSize: Generates a graph and some statistics about the sizes of pages on this wiki.

• EventStats/HitCounts: Generates a graph of page views and page visits.

• EventStats/UserAgents: Generates a graph of the web browsers used in visiting this page.

• SystemInformation: Shows basic information about this wiki installation, the extensions it has installed, etc.