Using Jackrabbit as an Metarepository

[Peter Koch <sy...@googlemail.com>]

Hi folks,
I want to build up a Metadatarepository, where only metadata of some
documents are held. There should be only a link to the ressources but not
the real content in the repository.

Has anybody done this so far with Jackrabbit?
Or can Jackrabbit only handle pure Content with some Metadata?

Thanks for your reply,
Greez
Peter

Re: Using Jackrabbit as an Metarepository

[Peter Koch <sy...@googlemail.com>]

The clients should be all in the same environment/domain. So they can reach
some open filesystems or databases.
I thought about xLink or xPointer to get the reference for the data.

Can Jackrabbit extract Metadata from external ressources like Wordfiles,
PDFs or has this to be done by hand?

Greez and thanks for the really fast answer ;)
Peter


2008/6/16 Florian Holeczek <fl...@holeczek.de>:

> Hi Peter,
>
> the standard way is using Jackrabbit as a kind of superfilesystem,
> which contains both data and metadata.
>
> I think the problem with your approach will be how to save these
> links... you'll have to use a notation which is valid on every client,
> otherwise the clients won't be able to access your documents.
> Saving your links in an e.g. String property is no problem with
> Jackrabbit.
>
> Regards,
>  Florian
>
> Ursprüngliche Nachricht vom 16.06.2008 um 13:28:
> > Hi folks,
> > I want to build up a Metadatarepository, where only metadata of some
> > documents are held. There should be only a link to the ressources but not
> > the real content in the repository.
>
> > Has anybody done this so far with Jackrabbit?
> > Or can Jackrabbit only handle pure Content with some Metadata?
>
> > Thanks for your reply,
> > Greez
> > Peter
>

Re: Using Jackrabbit as an Metarepository

[Florian Holeczek <fl...@holeczek.de>]

Hi Peter,

the standard way is using Jackrabbit as a kind of superfilesystem,
which contains both data and metadata.

I think the problem with your approach will be how to save these
links... you'll have to use a notation which is valid on every client,
otherwise the clients won't be able to access your documents.
Saving your links in an e.g. String property is no problem with
Jackrabbit.

Regards,
 Florian

Ursprüngliche Nachricht vom 16.06.2008 um 13:28:
> Hi folks,
> I want to build up a Metadatarepository, where only metadata of some
> documents are held. There should be only a link to the ressources but not
> the real content in the repository.

> Has anybody done this so far with Jackrabbit?
> Or can Jackrabbit only handle pure Content with some Metadata?

> Thanks for your reply,
> Greez
> Peter