Slides from the Magnolia Conference 2012 session on the ModeShape and Magnolia CMS. Based on my work for the JBoss Community team (which cares for the jboss.org services).

1. Magnolia & ModeShape
Beyond the reference implementation
jboss.org use case
Jozef Chocholacek, Senior Developer 05.09.2012 at Magnolia Conference 2012
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2. Concerning Hobbits ModeShape
An Introduction
The Future
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3. What is ModeShape
A JCR 2.0 implementation
Provides various storage
options
JCR access to the existing “ModeShape is a distributed, hierarchical,
transactional, and consistent data store
content
with support for queries, full-text search,
Automatic meta-data events, versioning, references, and
extraction flexible and dynamic schemas. It is very
fast, highly available, extremely scalable,
Federation and it is 100% open source and written in
Lightweight, embeddable, Java.
Clients use the (JSR-283) standard Java
clusterable
API for content repositories (aka, JCR) or
RESTful API, WebDAV server ModeShape's REST API, and can query
Open-source content through JDBC and SQL.”
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4. Connectors
Database (JPA)
Disk
Filesystem
JCR
Subversion
Infinispan / JBoss Cache
JDBC metadata
Federation
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5. Sequencers
XML, XSD, WSDL
ZIP files
MS Office documents
Java source/class files
MP3
DDL
Text
Teiid
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6. Federation
Leave the data where it is
(i.e. your legacy app)
Use JCR API to access
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7. Coming Soon: ModeShape 3.0
Much, much, MUCH faster
Larger repositories
Infinispan based
JSON Schema for configuration
Hibernate Search
JTA support (use in EJB, MDB, CDI, …)
Cloud storage
Simplier SPI
…
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8. Shaping Magnolia
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9. First Steps
JBoss Community Team, early 2010
May 2010: Magnolia developers involved
August 2010: proof-of-concept*
January 2011: modeshape-support module
released
(flagged “experimental”)
Obstacle: bad performance on big repos
(ver.2.4, not tested since that time)
* https://community.jboss.org/wiki/HowToMakeMagnoliaCMSShapedTomcatVersion
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10. The Goal Redefined
End of 2011
Use ModeShape side-by-side with
Jackrabbit to access the filesystem
Motivation: move projects’ files from
SourceForge to downloads.jboss.org
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11. The Problem & The Solution
Lucene version:
• Jackrabbit: Lucene 2.4.x
• ModeShape: Lucene 3.x
Can’t work together
(without classloading black-magic)
Solution: an independent (web)app to
start the MS Engine and use via JNDI
In production: June 13th, 2012
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12. Code & Demo
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13. The Future Of This Relation
Magnolia 5 is the priority
Waiting for the final version of the
ModeShape 3.0
Not a mere Jackrabbit replacement!
• Accessing the legacy data
• On-the-fly metadata processing
• Cloud storage
• …
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14. Links
ModeShape: http://jboss.org/modeshape
My blogpost on the implementation:
http://bit.ly/T9XSUx
Jan’s blogpost on modeshape-support:
http://bit.ly/OgC847
My old “Shaping Magnolia” blogpost:
http://bit.ly/SdyIFo
The Git repo: https://git.magnolia-
cms.com/gitweb/?p=modules/modeshape-
support.git
Twitter: @modeshape, @magnolia_cms, @jchochol
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15. Questions?
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16. Thank you!
Jozef Chocholacek, Senior Developer 05.09.2012 at Magnolia Conference 2012
Magnolia International Ltd. Jozef.Chocholacek@magnolia-cms.com
www.magnolia-cms.com
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