Release Notes for ModeShape 2.8.0.Final
ModeShape 2.8.0.Final is primarily a bug-fix release, and the following changes have been made since 2.7.0.Final:
- added limited support for using Infinispan 5.1 as a store
- plus 19 other bug fixes
JCR Supported Features
ModeShape implements all of the required JCR 2.0 features (repository acquisition,
authentication, reading/navigating, query, export, node type discovery, and permissions and capability
checking) and most of the optional JCR 2.0 features (writing, import, observation, workspace management
versioning, locking, node type management, same-name siblings, shareable nodes, and orderable
child nodes). The remaining optional features in JCR 2.0 (access control management,
lifecycle management, retention and hold, and transactions) may be introduced in future versions.
ModeShape supports the JCR-SQL2 and JCR-QOM query languages defined in JSR-283, plus the XPath and
JCR-SQL languages defined in JSR-170 but deprecated in JSR-283. ModeShape also supports a simple
search-engine-like language that is actually just the full-text search expression grammar
used in the second parameter of the CONTAINS(...) function of the JCR-SQL2 language.
The 2.8.0.Final release has not yet been certified to be fully compliant with JCR 2.0. The ModeShape
project plans to focus on attaining this certification in the very near future.
Accessing the Repository
- JAAS Authentication
- HTTP Authentication (for RESTful and WebDAV Services Only)
- Custom Authentication
Namespaces
- Session Remapping
- Permanent Addition/Deletion
Reading Repository Content
- Traversal Access
- Direct Access
- Same-Name Siblings
- Multi-Value Properties
- All Property Types Supported
- Property Type Conversion
Writing Repository Content
- Create/Update/Delete Nodes
- Create/Update/Delete Properties (Through Parent Nodes)
- Moving, Copying, Cloning
- Adding/Removing Mixins
- Referential integrity enforcement
Query / Search
- XPath
- JCR-SQL
- JCR-SQL2
- JCR-QOM
- Full-Text Search
Importing/Exporting Repository Content
- System View Import/Export
- Document View Import/Export
Node Types
- Inheritance Among Node Types
- Discovering available Node Types
- Discovering the Node Types of a Node
- Discovering the Definition of a Node Type
- Property Constraints
- Automatic Item Creation
- Predefined standard Node Types
- Custom Node Type Registration (CND-Based and and JCR 2.0 API Template-Based)
Repository Metadata under System Node
- Permanent Namespace Mappings
- Node Types (Built-In and User-Registered)
- Active Locks
Other JCR Optional Features
- Locking
- Observation
- Versioning
- Shareable Nodes
Connectors, Sequencers, and Other Features
As with previous releases, ModeShape 2.8.0.Final integrates with JAAS, web application security,
or you can easily integrate it with other systems. ModeShape can use a variety of back-ends to store
information (RDBMSes, Infinispan data grid, disk-storage memory, JBoss Cache, JCR repositories), can access content
in multiple systems (file systems, SVN repositories, JDBC metadata), can federate multiple stores and
systems into a single JCR repository, or can access other systems using custom connectors.
ModeShape is also able to automatically extract and store useful content from files you upload into
the repository using its library of sequencers, making that information much more accessible and
searchable than if it remains locked up inside the stored files. And ModeShape provides
WebDAV and RESTful services to allow various clients to access the content. For details, see the Reference Guide.
Connectors
- Federated Connector
- JPA Connector (read-write/persistent storage)
- In-Memory Connector (read-write)
- Disk-based Storage Connector (read-write)
- JCR Connector (read-write)
- Infinispan 4.x Connector (read-write/persistent storage)
- Infinispan 5.x Connector (read-write/persistent storage, limited use)
- JBoss Cache Connector (read-write/persistent storage)
- File System Connector (read-write/persistent storage of files & folders)
- Subversion Connector (read-write/persistent storage of files & folders)
- JDBC Metadata Connector (read-only)
Sequencers
- Compact Node Definition (CND) Sequencer
- DDL Sequencer
- Image Sequencer
- Java Source Sequencer
- Java Class Sequencer
- MP3 Sequencer
- MS Office Sequencer
- Text Sequencers (Delimited and Fixed Width)
- XML Sequencer
- XML Schema Document (XSD) Sequencer
- Web Service Definition Lanaguage (WSDL) 1.1 Sequencer
- Zip File Sequencer (also WARs, JARs, and EARs)
- Teiid Relational Model Sequencer
- Teiid VDB Sequencer
Deployment/Access Models
- Clustering
- JNDI-Based Deployment
- Embedded (in Server or JEE Archive) Deployment
- OSGi-Compatible Archives
- Access through RESTful Service
- Access through WebDAV Service
- Deploy as a service in JBoss Application Server 5.x and 6.x, with JOPR monitoring
- JDBC driver for accessing ModeShape content through JDBC API and JCR-SQL2 queries
Bug Fixes, Features, and other Issues
The following are the bugs, features and other issues that have been fixed in this Beta release:
Bug
- MODE-1377 - modeshape-web-jcr-webdav throws 500 Internal Server Error accessing repository with trailing slash
- MODE-1235 - Exception in Property.getNode for REFERENCE from JPA node to FileSystem node in federated repository
- MODE-949 - Node names created by Delimited TextSequencer are inconsistent with documentation
- MODE-1302 - PathNotFoundException when trying to retrieve version history for a node.
- MODE-1238 - Query index not updated when using the federation connector
- MODE-1298 - FileSystemBinary/ The "SHA-1" message digest algorithm could not be found
- MODE-1326 - Oracle DDL Parser throws exception parsing CREATE UNIQUE INDEX
- MODE-1400 - CND syntax errors not reported by registerNodeTypes()
- MODE-1401 - Checking in versionable node should make subgraph read-only
- MODE-1403 - Deadlock executing multi-threaded read/write on a number of files
- MODE-1373 - MS Office sequencer output doesn't match CND
- MODE-1279 - Access to repository is blocked after fulltext search
- MODE-1362 - DDL sequencer's output doesn't adhere to CND node types
- MODE-1364 - JCR-SQL2 query with reference property in join condition does not work
- MODE-1374 - ensureRequiredPrimaryTypesLoaded throwing NullPointerException on first access under Jetty
- MODE-1366 - Failure parsing JCR-SQL2 queries that use square brackets to surround paths with SNS indexes
Enhancement
- MODE-1307 - Add Content-Type to REST service documentation
- MODE-1252 - JcrRepositoryFactory.getRepository(params); - support repository name in params
Feature Request
- MODE-1398 - Add connector to latest Infinispan 5.x
Task