Sounds great ! I'm sure many would be interested in such tooling. Best regards, Serge Huber
Le 3 mai 2013 à 20:28, Tobias Bocanegra <tri...@bocanegra.ch> a écrit : > Hello, > > as some of you might know, we at Adobe (and at Day Software before) > developed quite some tooling around exporting, importing and syncing > content from and to a JCR repository. The "checked-out" structure on > the local filesystem also offers SVN-like operations, like update, > checkin, status, etc., against the JCR repository. We called this > system the "File Vault (vlt)". It uses the built-in JCR remoting of > Jackrabbit to read and write the content. > > We also used the same serialization format to implement our "Content > Packages" which basically are a zip of such an exported structure, w/o > all the meta information needed for syncing. This packaging system > also comes with a HTTP service and UI that allows to actually manage > those packages (create, update, install, uninstall, upload, etc). > > Additionally we also developed some maven plugins that allow building > such content packages, controlling vlt (the command line tool) and > deploying content packages into a running repository. > > Our R&D thinks that the Jackrabbit project would benefit from such > tooling since nothing comparable is established today. We are now at a > stage where we cleared all hurdles with Adobe Legal, and streamlined > the codebase so that we are ready to contribute. All that's left to do > from our side is to refactor the java package space and replace the > copyrights. > > Once contributed, we will continue developing the tools, as we heavily > use them in-house and also train our customers and partners on this > technology. IMO, there is little risk, that the code gets orphaned. > > If the general consensus is that such a contribution is desired, I > will prepare the final patch and offer it for contribution. > > The rough schedule is: > > May: prepare patch and offer contribution of vlt, packaging, maven plugins > June: prepare patch and offer contribution of package manager and > related maven plugins > > Along the same notes we also look into simplifying "vlt" as it is > sometimes a bit tricky to use :-) This development will start after > the contribution and we hope to have something usable by end of this > year. > > Thank you. > Regards, Toby
