Release Notes for ModeShape 2.8.1.Final

ModeShape 2.8.1.Final fixes 10 issues in 2.8.0.Final.

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 2.8.1.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 2.8.1.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-1451 - Anonymous Authentication in providers array ranks above custom provider
• MODE-1450 - Importing a Guvnor system view XML file fails
• MODE-1422 - Invalid handling of bi-directional references: ReferentialIntegrityException
• MODE-1417 - REST client utility is not making 'nt:file' nodes versionable
• MODE-1424 - Indexing the repository deadlocks in certain cases
• MODE-1418 - JCR-SQL2 CONTAINS() and Modeshape Search returning unexpected results
• MODE-1431 - Unable to locate the Log bundle
• MODE-1442 - Admin user does not have admin role in JBoss AS kit
• MODE-1421 - Session.removeItem crashes if a namespace is registered locally with that session

Task

• MODE-1472 - Remove SLF4J from the modeshape-client jar