New Maven repository at JBoss.org

JBoss.org recently announced a new Maven repository. The new instance uses Nexus and has a lot of very nice features and a very usable navigation and search web interface.

Those of you using ModeShape in your own applications or projects likely have Maven settings that involve multiple Maven repositories, including the old JBoss Maven 2 repository. This will continue to work (at least for a while), but you should change your settings to use the new JBoss.org repository. And, you will continue to need other Maven repositories for 3rd party artifacts. Chances are, you’re already doing this.

If you are a contributor to ModeShape (or any other project hosted at JBoss.org), you’ll want to use a different configuration that will download all artifacts through the JBoss.org repository (which in this mode will proxy the 3rd party artifacts). This will be faster, plus it ensures these artifacts are always available to JBoss to build our projects/products (even should other 3rd party repositories disappear).

If you have any questions or problems, please let us know on our forum.

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ModeShape 1.1 adds versioning, WebDAV, JCR connector, and more

ModeShape 1.1 has arrived a mere one month after the prior release, and it brings some fantastic improvements:

• support for JCR versioning
• a new WebDAV server module
• a new connector to other JCR repositories
• improved import from JCR System and Document Views
• almost 2 dozen other fixes and improvements

ModeShape now supports all the JCR 1.0 Level 1 and Level 2 features, plus the optional locking, versioning, and observation features. ModeShape also supports the required XPath query language, a simple search language, and the new JCR-SQL2 query language. ModeShape integrates with JAAS and web application security, or you can easily integrate it with other systems. ModeShape can use a variety of back-ends to store information (RDBMSes, Infinispan data grid, memory, JBoss Cache, JCR repositories), can access content in multiple systems (file systems, SVN repositories, JDBC metadata), can federate multiple stores and systems into a single JCR repository, or can access other systems using custom connectors. ModeShape is also able to automatically extract and store useful content from files you upload into the repository using its library of sequencers, making that information much more accessible and searchable than if it remains locked up inside the stored files. And ModeShape provides WebDAV and RESTful servers to allow various clients to access the content.

All the ModeShape 1.1.0.Final artifacts are in the JBoss Maven repository and on the project’s downloads page. The detailed list of the changes are in the release notes.

Congratulations to the fantastic ModeShape community!

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