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Apache Jackrabbit is a project at the Apache Software Foundation.

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• JackrabbitDevelopment

Features

• ConfigurationOverview: How to configure Jackrabbit

• PersistenceManagerFAQ: Persistence Manager configuration

• DataStore: How to configure and use 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

• Observation: Jackrabbit-specific observation

• Search: How to set up and use search

• CacheManager: Cache configuration

• RepositoryLock: Repository locking

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

• ContribTips: Help regarding the contrib projects

• JcrSpecImplementation: List of additional features and implementation variants in Jackrabbit compared to the JCR specification

• JcrCommons: Jackrabbit JCR Commons

• ConnectionPooling: Connection pooling for database components

• RemoteAccess: Remote access to a Jackrabbit repository over DavEx or RMI

• UserManagement: User and group management with Jackrabbit

• AccessControl: Access control with JCR 2.0 and Jackrabbit

• InteractiveCommandLine: Execute a command line tool in an interactive mode to change a JCR repository

• Statistics: an overview of the statistics exposed by Jackrabbit

Links

• Mailing Lists: Post questions in the mailing list

• JCR 2.0 (JSR-283) Specification Javadocs Diff to JCR 1.0 (public final draft)

• JCR 1.0 (JSR-170) Specification Javadocs (final)

• JcrLinks: Links to articles, presentation, videos, tools 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

Community

• ContentTrackApacheConUs2009: Proposed "Content Technology" track at the ApacheCon US 2009

• Oakathon August 2017: Oak Hackathon

• Oakathon November 2017: Oak Hackathon

• Oakathon March 2018: Oak Hackathon

• Oakathon September 2018: Oak Hackathon

• Oakathon November 2018: Oak Hackathon

• Oakathon May 2019: Oak Hackathon

Architecture

• ItemStateManagement: Design of ItemState management with collaboration diagrams for various use cases that read and/or modify content

FAQ

• QuestionsAndAnswers: Frequently asked questions about Jackrabbit

• ExamplesPage: Solutions for common problems

• Performance: Q. and A. about Jackrabbit perfomance

• JcrSessionHandling: How to (re)use JCR sessions

• EncodingAndEscaping: How to handle special characters in path and queries

• QueryUsingJdbc: How to query a JCR repository using the JDBC API.

• UsingJNDIDataSource: How to use a JNDI DataSource to connect to a database.

• ManuallyCreatingDatabaseTables: How to create tables manually when using database persistence.

Blueprints and best practices

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

• NodeNamingConventions : Recommendations for node names.

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.

• Jsop: Links and proposed syntax for a Json Diff format

• Jackrabbit 3: Project Oak (mainly of historical interest. Please refer to the Oak documentation for up to date information).

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.

• JackrabbitOnTomcat6: How to use the Jackrabbit with Tomcat6 & Mysql.

• JackrabbitOnTomcat6withJndiAndPostgresql: How to use the Jackrabbit with Tomcat6 and JNDI, backed by PostgreSQL.

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

• JackrabbitOnOracle: How to configure Jackrabbit to use Oracle backend.

• JackrabbitOnCloud: Running Jackrabbit using Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google App Engine (GAE).

• JackrabbitStandalone: Running Jackrabbit standalone.

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.

Miscellaneous

• SandboxCMIS: More on the CMIS Sandbox project

• WebAppFAQ: Frequently asked questions related to web application development

• OCMandJackrabbit2: Object Content mapping with Jackrabbit 2.0

• JackrabbitOsgi: Embedding the Repository in an OSGi Framework

• Jackrabbit FileVault: Jackrabbit FileVault

Reports

• https://whimsy.apache.org/board/minutes/Jackrabbit.html - Jackrabbit board reports.

• Board Report June 2012

• Board Report September 2012

• Board Report December 2012

• Board Report March 2013

• Board Report June 2013

• Board Report September 2013

• Board Report December 2013

• Board Report March 2014

• Board Report July 2014

• Board Report September 2014

• Board Report December 2014

• Board Report March 2015

• Board Report June 2015

• Board Report September 2015

• Board Report December 2015

• Board Report March 2016

• Board Report June 2016

• Board Report September 2016

• Board Report December 2016

• Board Report March 2017

• Board Report June 2017

• Board Report September 2017

• Board Report December 2017

• Board Report March 2018

• Board Report June 2018

• Board Report September 2018

• Board Report December 2018

• Board Report March 2019

Historical

• JcrMeetupMarch2009: JCR community gathering at 20:00 on March 24th at the ApacheCon EU in Amsterdam

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

• 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.