ModeShape

One question we often get about ModeShape is what makes ModeShape different than other JCR implementations, including the reference implementation. We’ve answered it in a previous blog post, but it’s important enough to give a more recent and ... [More] succinct answer. Here’s a really brief, very high-level summary of what ModeShape is and where our emphases [...] [Less]

The ModeShape team is proud to announce that ModeShape 2.5.0.Final is now available in the JBoss Maven repository (see our Maven instructions) and on our downloads page. We’ve updated our Reference Guide, Getting Started Guide, and JavaDoc. Give it a try! What’s new? This release is chocked full of new features, bug fixes, and improvements. [...]

ModeShape 2.5.0.Beta2 is now available. This is the second beta release for ModeShape 2.5, and eliminates the dependencies on the JCIP and Google Collections libraries, upgrades to Lucene 3.1 (with fixes and performance improvements), fixes several ... [More] issues with versioning, improves performance of versioning-related methods, and fixes about twenty bug fixes. For details, see the release notes [...] [Less]

We’ve just released the first beta of the 2.5 release, with a few performance improvements, a number of enhancements, and almost two dozen bug fixes. One of the new features is an extensible framework for extracting text from binary content to enable ... [More] finding this content with full-text searching, with out-of-the-box support for Teiid Virtual Database, Microsoft [...] [Less]

The ModeShape project is planning to move to Maven 3 for our build system, and away from Maven 2.0.9 (or 2.2.1). We’ve been struggling for quite some time with a number of Maven 2′s quirks, including difficulties with dependencies in our assemblies, and everything we’ve heard is that Maven 3 is a significant improvement all [...]

The ModeShape project’s official source code repository is now at GitHub: http://github.com/ModeShape/modeshape. We’re adopting the Fork+Pull method of development. The basic idea is that you first fork the “official” ModeShape repository on GitHub. ... [More] Then, you do all your development locally, push your proposed changes into your fork, and generate a pull-request describing your proposed changes. [...] [Less]

I’m happy to announce that ModeShape 2.4.0.Final is now available in the JBoss Maven repository (under the “org.modeshape” group ID) and our downloads page. We’ve updated our Getting Started Guide, Reference Guide , and JavaDoc. Like the last ... [More] release, we focused 2.4 on bug fixes and minor improvements. We’ve had great help from our community putting ModeShape through its paces. Many thanks to the [...] [Less]

Merely one month (to the day) after our previous release, ModeShape 2.3.0.Final is now available in the JBoss Maven repository (under the “org.modeshape” group ID) and our downloads page. We’ve updated our Getting Started Guide, Reference Guide ... [More] , and JavaDoc. So, what’s new in this release? A lot of bug fixes. We’ve had even more community feedback and participation [...] [Less]

Here’s a brand new presentation that provides a high-level overview of ModeShape and attempts to answer two pressing questions: Why use JCR? Why use ModeShape?

One really nice feature of JCR repositories is that you can use them to store files and folders. Like with all other content, the structure of these nodes is dictated by their node types, and most people use the “nt:file” and “nt:folder” node types defined in the JCR specification. Learning to use these node types [...]