Hi,
As mentioned yesterday, here's the candidate for a new Jackrabbit 2.0
alpha release:
http://people.apache.org/~jukka/jackrabbit/2.0-alpha7/
See the RELEASE-NOTES.txt file (also included at the end of this
message) for details about this release. The release candidate is a
jar archive of the sources in
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jackrabbit/tags/2.0-alpha7. The SHA1
checksum of the release package is
06e7510d1fc8ac9a6e0245cad48215a4463b5c0a.
Please vote on releasing this package as Apache Jackrabbit 2.0-alpha7.
The vote is open for the next 72 hours and passes if a majority of at
least three +1 Jackrabbit PMC votes are cast.
[ ] +1 Release this package as Apache Jackrabbit 2.0-alpha7
[ ] -1 Do not release this package because...
Note that this is a source-only release, and I won't be posting any
pre-compiled 2.0-alpha7 binaries on the Jackrabbit web site or the on
the central Maven repository. The reason for this is to emphasize the
alpha status of this release.
Here's my +1.
BR,
Jukka Zitting
Release Notes -- Apache Jackrabbit -- Version 2.0-alpha7
Introduction
------------
This is an alpha release of Apache Jackrabbit 2.0. This release implements
a pre-release version of the JCR 2.0 API, specified by the Java Specification
Request 283 (JSR 283, http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=283).
The purpose of this alpha release is to allow people to test and review
the new JCR 2.0 features before they are finalized. Feedback to both the
Jackrabbit project and the JSR 283 expert group is highly appreciated.
Note that an alpha release is not expected to be feature-complete or
otherwise suitable for production use.
Changes in this release
-----------------------
Jackrabbit 2.0 is a major upgrade from the earlier 1.x releases. The most
notable changes in this release are:
* Upgrade to JCR 2.0. This Jackrabbit release implements and is based
on a pre-release version of the JCR 2.0 API. See below for a status
listing of the issues related to JCR 2.0 changes. We expect to achieve
full feature-completeness in time for the final Jackrabbit 2.0 release.
* Upgrade to Java 5. All of Jackrabbit (except the jcr-tests component)
now requires Java 5 as the base platform. Java 1.4 environments are no
longer supported.
* Removal of deprecated classes and features. Jackrabbit 2.0 is not
backwards compatible with client code that used any classes or features
that had been deprecated during the 1.x release cycle.
* Separate JCR Commons components. Many of the general-purpose JCR
components like JCR-RMI and OCM are now developed and released
separately from the Jackrabbit content repository. See the individual
components for their most recent releases.
* Data store feature enabled in the default repository configuration.
For more detailed information about all the changes in this and other
Jackrabbit releases, please see the Jackrabbit issue tracker at
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCR
JCR 2.0 feature completeness
----------------------------
The following 43 top level JCR 2.0 implementation issues are being tracked in
the Jackrabbit issue tracker. Most of them have already been partially
implemented, but the issue will only be marked as resolved once no more
related work is needed.
Open (5 issues)
[JCR-1588] JSR 283: Access Control
[JCR-1590] JSR 283: Locking
[JCR-1712] JSR 283: JCR Names
[JCR-2085] test case (TCK) maintenance for JCR 2.0
[JCR-2208] update tests so that both Query.XPATH and Query:SQL are ...
Resolved (38 issues)
[JCR-1564] JSR 283 namespace handling
[JCR-1565] JSR 283 lifecycle management
[JCR-1589] JSR 283: Retention & Hold Management
[JCR-1591] JSR 283: NodeType Management
[JCR-1592] JSR 283: Activities
[JCR-1593] JSR 283: Simple versioning
[JCR-1608] JSR 283: Workspace Management
[JCR-1609] JSR 283: new Property Types
[JCR-1834] JSR 283: Create RepositoryFactory implementation
[JCR-1839] JSR 283: Introduce Event.getDate()
[JCR-1849] JSR 283: EventJournal
[JCR-1904] JSR 283: Event user data
[JCR-1947] JSR 283: Node Type Attribute Subtyping Rules
[JCR-1974] JSR 283: Evaluate Capabilities
[JCR-2028] JSR 283: JCR Path
[JCR-2053] JSR 283: Shareable nodes support in query
[JCR-2056] JSR 283: Binary interfaces
[JCR-2058] JSR 283: VersionManager and new versioning methods
[JCR-2059] JSR 283: Access Property/Node from Session
[JCR-2060] JSR 283: Access Nodes and Properties by Array of "NameGlob"
[JCR-2061] JSR 283: References and Dereferencing of Property Values
[JCR-2062] JSR 283: Repository Compliance
[JCR-2074] JSR 283: New Event Types
[JCR-2075] JSR 283: Identifier based event filtering
[JCR-2076] JSR 283: QOM and SQL2
[JCR-2086] JSR 283: Implementation of EventIterator.getDate
[JCR-2090] JSR 283: new methods on NodeType
[JCR-2091] Searchability settings in PropertyDefinition
[JCR-2092] make spi query code compatible with JCR 2.0
[JCR-2093] Implement QueryObjectModelFactory.fullTextSearch() in ...
[JCR-2116] JSR 283: Built-In Node Types
[JCR-2117] JSR 283: adopt CND syntax changes
[JCR-2137] Use type StaticOperand for fullTextSearchExpression
[JCR-2140] JSR 283: Configuration and Baselines
[JCR-2198] Text.escapeIllegalJCRChars should be adjusted to match the ...
[JCR-2200] Implement Query.getBindVariableNames()
[JCR-2201] Implement QueryResult.getSelectorNames()
[JCR-2234] changed behavior of javax.jcr.Value get* methods
Release Contents
----------------
This release consists of a single source archive packaged as a jar file.
The archive can be unpacked with the jar tool from your JDK installation.
See the README.txt file for instructions on how to build this release.
The source archive is accompanied by SHA1 and MD5 checksums and a PGP
signature that you can use to verify the authenticity of your download.
The public key used for the PGP signature can be found at
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jackrabbit/dist/KEYS.
About Apache Jackrabbit
-----------------------
Apache Jackrabbit is a fully conforming implementation of the Content
Repository for Java Technology API (JCR). A content repository is a
hierarchical content store with support for structured and unstructured
content, full text search, versioning, transactions, observation, and
more. Typical applications that use content repositories include content
management, document management, and records management systems.
For more information, visit http://jackrabbit.apache.org/
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