Release Notes for JBoss DNA Version 0.5

JCR Support

This version of JBoss DNA supports all JCR Level 1 features except XPath queries, and all JCR Level 2 features except authorization, referential integrity for reference properties, re-ordering of orderable child nodes, workspace cloning and corresponding nodes, workspace copying.

Accessing the Repository

• JAAS 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 (But Not Copying Yet)
• Adding/Removing Mixins

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 Node Types (All But Version-Related Types)
• Custom Node Type Registration (CND-Based in 0.5)

Repository Metadata under System Node

• Permanent Namespace Mappings
• Node Types (Built-In and User-Registered)

Bug

• [DNA-102] - setProperty method in SequencerOutput interface should enforce limitations on property value types
• [DNA-371] - No Default JAAS Implementation
• [DNA-372] - Session.impersonate and Session.checkPermission Are Not Implemented
• [DNA-388] - AbstractJcrNode.getReferences() is incorrectly implemented
• [DNA-393] - Table name is wrong in the Developer Tools Documentation page
• [DNA-394] - Maven reports Java sequencer project is missing indirectly referenced Eclipse OSGI JAR
• [DNA-398] - RepositoryNodeTypeManager is Not Thread-Safe
• [DNA-403] - Federation connector does not behave properly in many situations
• [DNA-407] - ReadBranchRequest.iterator() returns too many nodes
• [DNA-408] - DNA JCR TCK Tests for Nightly JCR TCK Compatibility Build Fail
• [DNA-410] - Several JCR Query Persistence Tests Are Failing
• [DNA-411] - JcrRepository.Options Is Plural - Coding Convention Violation
• [DNA-436] - Repository example uses different path in configuration repository than assumed by RepositoryService
• [DNA-437] - TCK Tests Fail on Workspace.copy
• [DNA-438] - JR TCK Test SetValueValueFormatExceptionTest Fails
• [DNA-439] - JcrNode.setProperty(String, String|Value, int) Doe sNot Always Throw ConstraintViolationException Correctly
• [DNA-441] - JcrWorkspace.move and .copy Don't Check Node Type Constraints or Permissions
• [DNA-443] - Java sequencer is not saving content correctly
• [DNA-444] - Update REST Servlet to Use New JcrConfiguration
• [DNA-447] - Make REST PUT Method Support add/removeMixin Like POST Method
• [DNA-449] - Federation connector does not find it's configuration when imported using the JcrConfiguration

Feature Request

• [DNA-11] - Sequencer configuration should be stored in the repository
• [DNA-55] - Web Application with REST-based API for remote access and usage
• [DNA-363] - Define node types via CND files
• [DNA-376] - Add request to change the order of a child node (or nodes) relative to the other children
• [DNA-391] - Round-trip Test Case for Import/Export
• [DNA-397] - Expose JCR Node Type Registration through Public API
• [DNA-400] - JcrConfiguration Could Support Setting Options
• [DNA-401] - Remove SequencingService Dependency on JCR
• [DNA-409] - Add to connector API ability to delete all nodes below a node
• [DNA-442] - Node types should not have to be registered in a particular order

Task

• [DNA-252] - Complete support for events to the connector framework
• [DNA-389] - Change Getting Started examples to use the DnaConfiguration and JcrConfiguration components
• [DNA-402] - Update MIME type based on file extensions
• [DNA-404] - Remove ObservationService, migrate usage to observe RepositoryLibrary
• [DNA-405] - Update the Getting Started doc and examples with the new configuration and to remove dependency on Jackrabbit
• [DNA-415] - Remove JSR-94 and the 'org.jboss.dna.repository.rules' package
• [DNA-446] - Screenshots of example applications need to be updated in the Getting Started document

Sub-task

• [DNA-239] - code test case for SVNRepositorySource used to manage the repos. content
• [DNA-309] - Design URLs and rerepresentations, leaving room for future UI features and maybe WebDAV
• [DNA-310] - Create dna-web subproject, with primary artifact being WAR file
• [DNA-311] - Use RESTEasy (and JAX-RS API) to implement Java classes with methods for publishing and un-publishing content
• [DNA-312] - Implement HTTP GET action for any resource at any path (folder or file)
• [DNA-313] - Implement HTTP PUT action for any resource at any path (folder or file)
• [DNA-314] - Implement HTTP POST action for any resource at any path (folder or file)
• [DNA-315] - Implement HTTP DELETE action for any resource at any path (folder or file)
• [DNA-316] - Get DNA running in a web app and used by JAX-RS classes
• [DNA-317] - Integrate and test by deploying into container
• [DNA-318] - Provide documentation/examples/tutorial explaining use of RESTful API
• [DNA-440] - Integrate Servlet Security with DNA ExecutionContext