Ben J. Christensen

In the past week I’ve done a bunch of research on content management systems, and in particular the Java standard JSR 170.

I’ve been playing with Magnolia and so far am fairly impressed with how it works — though not so impressed with the backend repository which in this case is JackRabbit, the open source reference implementation.

It appears though that for a fairly reasonable price I can get the Enterprise version of Magnolia that uses the commercial JSR-170 compliant repository from Day (http://www.day.com/site/en/index.html). It sounds like it should be MUCH better … and is very likely what all the big name companies use that Magnolia lists on their site. I’ve requested them to contact me but haven’t heard back yet.

JSR-170 definitely is sounding nice … though it seems like it still has a way to go before it fully matures as it’s quite new.

Also, the opensource community obviously has not had enough time to make a decent enterprise implementation, as Jackrabbit doesn’t cut it. For example … I have the system running with JackRabbit … it only support filesystem persistence right now, so I try to connect another client to it and …. it doesn’t work ( the files are locked) …. so that means it won’t work so well except for small things.

Also, I see no nice way of connecting remotely to the repository using the open source version of Magnolia.

I’ll continue researching this in the coming week.

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