Which jar to use to add Jackrabbit to a web app as a resource?

[Tom Anderson <to...@e2x.co.uk>]

Hi,

I am writing a little web application to fiddle with JCR, using Jackrabbit 
as the implementation. I'll write a few servlets and JSPs and so on to 
display and manipulate JCR items. I'd like to add a repository as a 
resource, in the orthodox J2EE manner, with a resource-ref entry in the 
web.xml and a corresponding entry in the container's configuration (in 
this case, Jetty's jetty-env.xml) - what is called in the documentation 
"Model 1: The (Web-) Application Bundle" [1].

So far, so good. But what i'm not sure of what i need to add to my web 
app's lib directory. The downloads page [2] gives me four options: a 
source jarball, a standalone server, a web application, and a resource 
adapter. Having had a look at the descriptions of these linked from the 
components page [3], i don't think any of these are what i want: i want 
classes, not source; i want a component, not a standalone server; i want a 
component, not a web application in its own right; i want a library i can 
use inside a web app, not a JCA resource adapter.

So, what do i use? I'm guessing that i can use the standalone or web app 
jars and get away with it, but i'd prefer to use a minimal set of classes. 
Should i be getting the Jackrabbit core jar, and using that and all its 
dependencies? If so, what are those dependencies?

Thanks,
tom

[1] http://jackrabbit.apache.org/deployment-models.html
[2] http://jackrabbit.apache.org/downloads.html
[3] http://jackrabbit.apache.org/jackrabbit-components.html

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Re: Which jar to use to add Jackrabbit to a web app as a resource?

[ChadDavis <ch...@gmail.com>]

I recommend using the jackrabbit-webapp webapp.  It has a servlet that
is there just to provide access to the repository, which is
bootstrapped by another servlet dedicated to that purpose.  I think
this module contains all dependencies except for the jcr jar itself.

On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Tom Anderson <to...@e2x.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am writing a little web application to fiddle with JCR, using Jackrabbit
> as the implementation. I'll write a few servlets and JSPs and so on to
> display and manipulate JCR items. I'd like to add a repository as a
> resource, in the orthodox J2EE manner, with a resource-ref entry in the
> web.xml and a corresponding entry in the container's configuration (in this
> case, Jetty's jetty-env.xml) - what is called in the documentation "Model 1:
> The (Web-) Application Bundle" [1].
>
> So far, so good. But what i'm not sure of what i need to add to my web app's
> lib directory. The downloads page [2] gives me four options: a source
> jarball, a standalone server, a web application, and a resource adapter.
> Having had a look at the descriptions of these linked from the components
> page [3], i don't think any of these are what i want: i want classes, not
> source; i want a component, not a standalone server; i want a component, not
> a web application in its own right; i want a library i can use inside a web
> app, not a JCA resource adapter.
>
> So, what do i use? I'm guessing that i can use the standalone or web app
> jars and get away with it, but i'd prefer to use a minimal set of classes.
> Should i be getting the Jackrabbit core jar, and using that and all its
> dependencies? If so, what are those dependencies?
>
> Thanks,
> tom
>
> [1] http://jackrabbit.apache.org/deployment-models.html
> [2] http://jackrabbit.apache.org/downloads.html
> [3] http://jackrabbit.apache.org/jackrabbit-components.html
>
> --
> Tom Anderson                |            e2x Ltd, 8 Elder Street, London E1
> 6BT
> (e) tom.anderson@e2x.co.uk  |  (m) +44 (7960) 989794  |  (f) +44 (20) 7194
> 8016
>