Setting up SOAP services to run on top of jackrabbit

[crm6360 <cr...@hotmail.com>]

My company has a need to deploy a jackrabbit to a server so that multiple
clients can do the following:

1 - remotely access one or more repositories that exist on the server (e.g.
client and server on different locations within the company network)
2 - create new repositories
3-  create, modify and delete content while connected to a repository

My thoughts were to build a set of SOAP methods that would in turn call the
jackrabbit API to manage the repository content locally on the server's
machine.

I was able to get everything running in a standalone configuration (e.g. all
on one machine) but it seems that the documentation for deploying to a web
server is inconsistent or out of date, leaving me really uncertain of which
path to take.  I thought it might be as simple as deploying the jackrabbit
war to a servlet container (e.g. tomcat) and then calling the
JcrUtils.getRepository(uri) - but I can't identify a URI pattern that does
the trick so I'm thinking my approach is flawed (I've combed through a lot
of google user complaints so I think I've tried most of the approaches that
have been suggested).   

I see that there are existing servlet/server components available but it's
not clear how they can be utilized, or if that makes sense for my company's
situation.

Look forward to chatting with the group and providing more specifics where
needed.   

Thanks,

Chris





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Re: Setting up SOAP services to run on top of jackrabbit

[crm6360 <cr...@hotmail.com>]

Julian Reschke wrote
> Any reason why you don't simply use WebDAV?
> 
> Best regards, Julian

Julian, 

The WeDAV connection to a server is:  "http://localhost:8080/server"  (or
something close to that).   This only lets us connect to an existing
repository - it doesn't let us remotely create a new repository.    This
also suggests that we can only bind 1 repository to a server.   Ideally, we
want 1 server that manages multiple repositories under the hood in the same
way that the local repository implementation automatically gets or creates
new repos given a path name.

Hope this makes sense.  It would be nice if Jackrabbit has these
server/client capabilities built-in.   

-Chris




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Re: Setting up SOAP services to run on top of jackrabbit

[Julian Reschke <ju...@gmx.de>]

On 2013-07-24 16:34, crm6360 wrote:
> Hi Bertrand,
>
> There are some similarities, but the "15 minute" Sling tutorial suggests
> that it is predominantly script-driven with HTTP command-line statements.
> My project requires that we integrate the JCR calls into an existing RCP
> plugin-based application.  The RCP app provides a view into the content
> repositories.   We may select a file, save a file, change a file, get all
> repositories, etc... all of these actions are initiated through the RCP user
> interface.  The action should then communicate with a JackRabbit server
> which will exist somewhere on the network.
>
> SOAP (or maybe REST?) seemed to be a logical way to approach this if a
> workable configuration could be achieved.   For example, if Jackrabbit/JCR
> has methods for getFile and putFile, SOAP/REST would provide wrapper methods
> for those actions.   These wrapper methods would then be accessible by any
> front-end client, not just the RCP app.
>
> Fyi - I am using JackRabbit 2.6.1 and Tomcat 7.
>
> -Chris

Any reason why you don't simply use WebDAV?

Best regards, Julian

Re: Setting up SOAP services to run on top of jackrabbit

[crm6360 <cr...@hotmail.com>]

Hi Bertrand, 

There are some similarities, but the "15 minute" Sling tutorial suggests
that it is predominantly script-driven with HTTP command-line statements.  
My project requires that we integrate the JCR calls into an existing RCP
plugin-based application.  The RCP app provides a view into the content
repositories.   We may select a file, save a file, change a file, get all
repositories, etc... all of these actions are initiated through the RCP user
interface.  The action should then communicate with a JackRabbit server
which will exist somewhere on the network.

SOAP (or maybe REST?) seemed to be a logical way to approach this if a
workable configuration could be achieved.   For example, if Jackrabbit/JCR
has methods for getFile and putFile, SOAP/REST would provide wrapper methods
for those actions.   These wrapper methods would then be accessible by any
front-end client, not just the RCP app.

Fyi - I am using JackRabbit 2.6.1 and Tomcat 7.   

-Chris



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Re: Setting up SOAP services to run on top of jackrabbit

[Bertrand Delacretaz <bd...@apache.org>]

Hi,

On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 2:34 AM, crm6360 <cr...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> ...My thoughts were to build a set of SOAP methods that would in turn call the
> jackrabbit API to manage the repository content locally on the server's
> machine....

Note that what you're doing sounds fairly similar to the goals of
Apache Sling, i.e. provide an HTTP-based interface to content
repositories - http://sling.apache.org/documentation/getting-started/discover-sling-in-15-minutes.html
will give you an overview of how that works.

-Bertrand