MM - Magnolia and ModeShape

End of the last year and beginning of this I#039;ve spent trying to get Magnolia work with ModeShape. There were issues with both of the apps. On one end, Magnolia had issues with the Modeshape session data refresh strategy, on the other one, Modeshape was sometimes stricter then JCR spec required it to be when it came to queries. All of those were elementary issues that were relatively easy to overcome and I got Magnolia on ModeShape running and working fine. The next task was to create a bundled webapp so that anyone who wants to try this combo can just grab it and run. Again, this was easily achieved ... few exclusions in poms necessary, but apart from that smooth ride. Last but not least task before the release was to choose persistence configuration. During my testing, I was happy to use in-memory persistence which of course meant I had to re-install on restart, but was also pleasantly fast. The default bundle of Magnolia with JackRabbit as a repository comes with Derby to make configuration as simple as posssible (of course for production use you will reconfigure the DB to something else, but to get you quickly started, Derby is small, fast and seamless to get running in the embedded mode). Obviously, I choose to do the same for ModeShape, but unfortunately, current version of ModeShape doesn#039;t run on Derby (see MODE-XYZ and HHH-3434 for details). Having failed to use Derby I moved on to the next embedded DB - HSQLDB. The...

Date: January, 03 2011
Url: http://www.java.net/blog/rah003/archive/2011/01/03/mm-magnolia-and-modeshape

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