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JBoss DNA

Reference Guide

by Randall M. Hauch and Brian Carothers
Target audience
1. Introduction to JBoss DNA
1.1. Use cases for JBoss DNA
1.2. What is metadata?
1.3. What is JCR?
1.4. Project roadmap
1.5. JBoss DNA modules
1.6. What's new?
I. Developers and Contributors
2. Developer tools
2.1. Development methodology
2.2. JDK
2.3. JIRA
2.4. Subversion
2.5. Git
2.6. Maven
2.6.1. Building
2.7. Continuous integration with Hudson
2.8. Eclipse IDE
2.9. Releasing
2.9.1. Building all artifacts and assemblies
2.9.2. Determine the version to be released
2.9.3. Release dry run
2.9.4. Prepare for the release
2.9.5. Perform the release
2.10. Summary
3. Testing
3.1. Unit tests
3.2. Integration tests
3.3. Writing tests
3.4. Technology Compatibility Kit (TCK) tests
II. JBoss DNA Core
4. Execution Context
4.1. Security
4.1.1. JAAS
4.1.2. Web application security
4.2. Namespace Registry
4.3. Class Loaders
4.4. MIME Type Detectors
4.5. Property factory and value factories
4.6. Summary
5. Graph Model
5.1. Names
5.2. Paths
5.3. Properties
5.4. Values and Value Factories
5.5. Readable, TextEncoder, and TextDecoder
5.6. Locations
5.7. Graph API
5.7.1. Using Workspaces
5.7.2. Working with Nodes
5.8. Requests
5.9. Request processors
5.10. Observation
5.10.1. Observable
5.10.2. Observers
5.10.3. Changes
5.11. Summary
6. Connector Framework
6.1. Connectors
6.2. Out-of-the-box connectors
6.3. Writing custom connectors
6.3.1. Creating the Maven 2 project
6.3.2. Implementing a RepositorySource
6.3.3. Implementing a RepositoryConnection
6.3.4. Testing custom connectors
6.4. Summary
7. Sequencing framework
7.1. Sequencers
7.2. Stream Sequencers
7.3. Path Expressions
7.4. Out-of-the-box Sequencers
7.5. Creating Custom Sequencers
7.5.1. Creating the Maven 2 project
7.5.2. Testing custom sequencers
7.6. Summary
III. JBoss DNA JCR
8. Configuring and Using JBoss DNA
8.1. JBoss DNA's JcrEngine
8.2. JcrConfiguration
8.2.1. Loading from a Configuration File
8.2.2. Loading from a Configuration Repository
8.2.3. Programmatic Configuration
8.3. Deploying JBoss DNA via JNDI
8.3.1. Example application using JCR and JNDI
8.3.2. Configuring JCR and JNDI
8.4. Using JBoss DNA via Maven
8.5. What's next
9. Using the JCR API with JBoss DNA
9.1. Obtaining JCR Repositories
9.2. Creating JCR Sessions
9.2.1. Using JAAS
9.2.2. Using Custom Security
9.2.3. Using HTTP Servlet security
9.2.4. Guest (Anonymous) User Access
9.3. JCR Specification Support
9.3.1. Level 1 and Level 2 (Required) Features
9.3.2. Optional Features
9.3.3. JCR Security
9.3.4. Built-In Node Types
9.3.5. Custom Node Type Registration
9.4. Summary
10. Querying and Searching using JCR
10.1. JCR Query API
10.2. JCR XPath Query Language
10.2.1. Column Specifiers
10.2.2. Type Constraints
10.2.3. Property Constraints
10.2.4. Path Constraints
10.2.5. Ordering Specifiers
10.2.6. Miscellaneous
10.3. JCR-SQL Query Language
10.4. JCR-SQL2 Query Language
10.4.1. Queries
10.4.2. Sources
10.4.3. Joins
10.4.4. Equi-Join Conditions
10.4.5. Same-Node Join Conditions
10.4.6. Child-Node Join Conditions
10.4.7. Descendant-Node Join Conditions
10.4.8. Constraints
10.4.9. And Constraints
10.4.10. Or Constraints
10.4.11. Not Constraints
10.4.12. Comparison Constraints
10.4.13. Between Constraints
10.4.14. Property Existence Constraints
10.4.15. Set Constraints
10.4.16. Full-text Search Constraints
10.4.17. Same-Node Constraint
10.4.18. Child-Node Constraints
10.4.19. Descendant-Node Constraints
10.4.20. Paths and Names
10.4.21. Static Operands
10.4.22. Bind Variables
10.4.23. Dynamic Operands
10.4.24. Ordering
10.4.25. Columns
10.4.26. Limit and Offset
10.5. Full-Text Search Language
10.5.1. Full-text Search Expressions
11. The JBoss DNA RESTful Web Service
11.1. Supported Resources and Methods
11.1.1. Binary properties
11.2. Configuring the DNA REST Server
11.3. Deploying the DNA REST Server
11.4. Repository Providers
11.5. DNA REST Client API
IV. Connector Library
12. In-Memory Connector
13. File System Connector
14. JPA Connector
14.1. Basic Model
14.2. Simple Model
15. Federation Connector
15.1. Projections
15.2. Multiple Projections
15.3. Processing flow
15.4. Update operations
15.5. Configuration
15.6. Repository Source properties
16. Subversion Connector
17. JBoss Cache Connector
18. Infinispan Connector
19. JDBC Metadata Connector
V. Sequencer Library
20. Compact Node Type (CND) Sequencer
21. XML Document Sequencer
22. ZIP File Sequencer
23. Microsoft Office Document Sequencer
24. Java Source File Sequencer
25. Java Class File Sequencer
26. Image Sequencer
27. MP3 Sequencer
28. DDL File Sequencer
28.1. Example
29. Text Sequencers
29.1. Delimited Text Sequencer
29.2. Fixed Width Text Sequencer
VI. MIME Type Detector Library
30. Aperture MIME type detector
31. Writing custom detectors
32. Looking to the future