Jackrabbit first steps – Getting the bunny hop to work
I just got hired by a company that's into content. Specifically, they're building a product/platform on top of JSR-170. Should be pretty exciting to learn the new domain ...
While I wait to start, I'm getting ready by reading up and trying out a few things so I can jump in right away.
Initial setup wasn't as easy as I'd like ... what can I say, I'm lazy and I like nicely packaged downloads. Jackrabbit doesn't offer that except through maven, and I'm still not on board with maven, so I had to download the 56 dependencies manually (brand new home computer being used for the first time in dev - so I have none of the usual suspects which a dev machine would have; lucene, commons-x, ...).
(Interestingly, this is the first project I see which uses the sl4j library. I've always been lazy and stuck to log4j cause it "just works", so never bothered. This might be a good occasion to indirectly see it at work.)
Seems, up to now (yes, by now, I've done more than just the first hop), that this is a great abstraction for any content platform ... wish I'd known before. A failed project in my current company was greatly due to a data model deemed complicated by the PHP guys ... (yes, ellipsis denotes an unfinished or unexpressed thought or opinion)