ModeShape

I’m happy to announce that ModeShape 3.1.3.Final is available immediately. It contains almost dozen bug fixes, including several clustering-related fixes; see our  release notes for specifics. We recommend everyone using 3.1.2 or earlier upgrade as ... [More] soon as feasible. As usual, the artifacts are in the JBoss Maven repository and on our downloads page. Our getting started [...] [Less]

I’m happy to announce that ModeShape 3.1.2.Final is available immediately. It contains two dozen bug fixes; see our  release notes for specifics. We recommend everyone using 3.1.1 or earlier upgrade as soon as feasible. As usual, the artifacts are in ... [More] the JBoss Maven repository and on our downloads page. Our getting started guide has instructions, ModeShape [...] [Less]

ModeShape Tools is a set of Eclipse plugins for working with ModeShape and JCR repositories. The plugins have been available for a little while, but we wanted to make sure you knew about them. Editor for CND files The first plugin we’ll talk about is an Eclipse editor for the Compact Node Definition (CND) format [...]

Shane gives a good breakdown of the various ways to classify data as structured or unstructured. He points out that very often data is a mixture of both structured and unstructured data, and he gives several examples. What I find so interesting about this, however, is how well ModeShape can handle these varieties of data. [...]

Congratulations to the Infinispan community on today’s release of Infinispan 5.2.0.Final! It looks like it’s full of really great new features and fixes, including: non-blocking state transfer enables serving requests while servers are joining and ... [More] leaving the cluster cross-site replication for clusters that span sites rolling upgrades for HotRod servers improvements to the map-reduce framework (which we use [...] [Less]

It’s been just two weeks since our release of 3.1, and several important issues were identified that we wanted to get fixed as soon as possible. As of tonight, ModeShape 3.1.1.Final is available and contains only bug fixes and some minor build corrections. See our  release notes for specifics. We recommend everyone using 3.1 upgrade as [...]

One question people have when starting out with ModeShape and JCR is this: Should I create one CND file with all of my node types, or should I create multiple CND files? Naturally, the answer is “It depends”, since there really is no one way that works for everyone. So to help you figure out [...]

I’m very happy to announce that ModeShape 3.1.0.Final is available immediately in the JBoss Maven repository and on our downloads page. See our getting started guide for instructions. As always, check out our documentation, release notes, JavaDoc ... [More] , and our code on GitHub; use our forums or IRC channel to ask questions, and log any issues in our JIRA. Please consider upgrading to 3.1 if you’re [...] [Less]

I’m really excited to announce that ModeShape 3.1 (due out in a few days) will re-introduce the ability to federate data from external systems into ModeShape repositories. That might sound kind of esoteric, but let’s look at some simple scenarios ... [More] that show how powerful this is. (Long-time readers might recall that ModeShape 2.x had federation, [...] [Less]

UPDATE: Added a 5th option, as suggested by Bertrand Delacretaz. (This post was inspired by a response I recently wrote to a Stack Overflow question. That answer was a bit long, but I thought it would also be suitable as a blog post.) Many applications offer a way to tag “things” with either user-defined or [...]