Re: Assessing Oak: content delivery, security, deployment & more

[Dmitry Telegin <mi...@cargosoft.ru>]

Hi Chetan,

On Wed, 15/02/2017 16:39 +0530, Chetan Mehrotra wrote:
> Hi Dmitry,
> 
> You should have a look at Apache Sling [1] which provides quite a bit
> of stuff like HTTP api, embedded repository, authentication
> integration etc.
> 
> > 1. Binary content delivery. How good/bad is the idea to serve
> > binary
> > content right off the repository? I know things are different for
> > images/PDFs vs. audio/video, but I'm afraid my project will feature
> > all
> > of the above.
> > While investigating, I've stumbled upon this page: https://wiki.apa
> > che.
> > org/jackrabbit/JCR%20Binary%20Usecase
> > From it, I can deduce that the problem is well-known, but
> > apparently
> > hasn't been addressed yet. Maybe someone has more up-to-date info?
> > I'm
> > particularly interested in sendfile support.
> 
> Yes this is not yet implemented and something we plan to do for 1.8
> release. For you can possibly workaround the logic which serves the
> binary content by mapping the Binary id with the way its stored in
> datastore (knowing you rely on implementation details)

Now that 1.8.0 is out, could you please tell me if the said changes
have made it into the release? The changelog is huge, and I couldn't
find the relevant entries from the first glance.

Thanks!
Dmitry