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I believe that Liferay uses another bit of mirror-universe saucer tech, the Content Repository for Java API: https://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=283 https://jcp.o
by twic 7y ago
I believe that Liferay uses another bit of mirror-universe saucer tech, the Content Repository for Java API:
https://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=283 https://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=283
This is essentially a hierarchical database - think something like an XML document, a hierarchy of nodes of particular types with attributes according to their type - but has a few really eye-opening features, like versioning, and branching and merging of versions. I'm not aware of any other kind of database (apart from VCSes!) that does that.
- generalpf 7y agoI used Apache Jackrabbit (a JCR) at a previous job to store PDFs of insurance rate manuals. We could tag them by province, line of business, whatever, and then query it quickly. Jackrabbit is a fantastic piece of software.
- HillRat 7y agoAnd Adobe’s AEM lives on top of Jackrabbit Oak, their next-gen JCR. For a lot of purposes, Jackrabbit Oak makes a pretty good general-purpose headless CMS in its own right (assuming you’re good with the JCR pragmatics).
- namdnay 7y agoThere’s a hidden world of Enterprise CMS systems, all built on JCR. Liferay, Adobe, Jahia etc... as you said, it’s like stepping into a parallel universe