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eXo JCR 1.10 new features and improvements

Monday, October 27th, 2008

eXo Platform JCR 1.10 released.

This is a improvement version of 1.x JCR family which comming with set of new features and improvements.

JCR 1.10 contains such new features as
- JCR based Organization Service
- Amazon SimpleDB support for Workspace storage
- Repositoy management with ONLINE, READ-ONLY and OFFLINE states
- Content Addressable External Values Storage
- New authentication policy mechanism
- FCKeditor uses REST based access to JCR resources

Main improvements are
- Cache optimization for Items access and modification
- Replication members connection recovery and priority mechanism
- Replication BLOBs processing mechanism
- SessionProvider multithreading usage
- Item Move, Copy and Remove operations optimization
- ACL and Permissions logic upgraded

In this release we work on quality and performance of JCR core.
You will meet better speed of Items Move, Copy, Clone and Remove operations. Versioning and Locking operations are faster now too.

We have modernized our Replication service.
The service new features such as Members priority and Member ‘heart-beat’ mechanism will help implement more realistic JCR Clusters.
Replication BLOBs operations were tested again and some issues fixed.
New articles about Replication/Cluster configuration published on eXo wiki.

Validation aspects of JSR-170 specification was reviewed in JCR core. JCR Path validation is more strict now. Nodetypes autoctreated child node initialization logic fixed. Security level and JCR Permissions upgraded using new eXo Core Security service.

Fixes of Arabic language dates conversation and Internationalization problem of PDF Document reader applied. Set of multithreading usecases were tested and optimized.

And the New features!

We start new eXo Organization Service API implementation on JCR storage.
The service actually transparent for other applications having use Organization Service API.
Only the service component should be configured.
All existing listeners and initializers can be used with the service. This is a new default Organization Service will be used in next versions of eXo JCR based products such as Portal and ECM.

We step on to SaaS path these days.
eXo JCR storage in Amazon SimpleDB and S3 are beta now.
Today you can setup eXo JCR Repository (e.g. Portal or ECM) on SimpleDB and S3 services, put the application on Amazon EC2 and you got it. Sure you can use the new storage not only on EC2.
Beta status mostly thanks to Amazon… the stuff thanks to Amazon.
We run it on demo JCR on EC2. Ask us if you are interested!

External Values Storage now can be CASasble.
We are supporting Content-Addressable-Storage.
The feature most useful for usecases where same content may be stored (duplicated) in different locations.
With the Value storage the Value will be stored once (one file) and then shared between multiple JCR Properties.

So… add Repository state management, new Security service, WebDAV improvements and REST based access to a JCR content, powerful Office WebDAV plugins, Kofax integration, RMI adapter, REST Groovy services, Registry and Audit services, ACL and metadata extensions and more.

Would it be tasty for Web2.0, 3.0? Yes!

Find more details about version JCR 1.10 on JIRA.

Be in touch with our eXo performance & QA process here.

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New eXo article on InfoQ!

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

A new article written by Tugdual Grall, Patrice Lamarque and Benjamin Mestrallet

Check it now!

Topics:

  • The Web 2.0 Portal
  • eXo Portlet Container: JSR 286 and WSRP 2
  • The WebOS: a portal layout
  • eXo Java Content Repository and ECM

Enjoy!

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New Pioneer build

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

You can now download the new eXo pioneer build from the OW2 forge

As you know our pioneer builds are the very last community distribution, it comes with the SVN last changes (from trunk) and all the eXo products packaged into a single one – eXo Ultimate – to allow you to test this incredible platform

Indeed it includes:

  • eXo Portal
  • eXo WebOS
  • eXo ECM
  • eXo CS
  • and of course eXo JCR, PC and WS as the core components of the platform

This pioneer build is the first one with Mail, Contact and Shared Calendar applications in a beta state
, aka it is usable. It also comes with many bug fixes and improvements, enjoy!

After a move to a dedicated SVN hosted on Amazon EC2 and S3, we are now able to restart to release pioneer builds every 2 or 3 weeks. You will not have to wait two months between 2 releases anymore!

If you want stable, packaged products you will have to go with the subscription version that will be launched very very soon, stay tuned!

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