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Is Alfresco (jLAN) a fitting replacement for jCIFS lib and to what extend?

mdzh — Tue, 25 Nov 2014 12:06:47 GMT

Hello devs,I apologize in advance if this is not the right place to ask. I was digging in the documentation and then here in the forums but I couldn't find anything related. Please excuse my ignorance if this was already asked and answered The company I'm working for is building a product that rev

Re: Is Alfresco (jLAN) a fitting replacement for jCIFS lib and to what extend?

afaust — Wed, 26 Nov 2014 08:00:54 GMT

Hello,

the reason you can't find (many) JLAN examples is that it was incorporated into the main Alfresco product quite a while ago. As far as I know, Alfresco JLAN 5.0 was the last release of the stand-alone variant back in 2009. The project has lived on as "jlan-embed" within the Alfresco source-tree, but this project now has dependencies on the Alfresco core libraries which you might not want in your own project.
In its current incarnation as "jlan-embed" it focuesses entirely on the server-side of things as the SMB/NFS library within Alfresco. Additionally, JLAN also does not support anything beyond SMB 1.x, so I don't know how good a replacement it could be.

I hope an Alfresco employee corrects me if my view of the JLAN project is incorrect, but from my perspective, there is no JLAN anymore - only a module in Alfresco that used to be JLAN and only bears the name due to its history.

Regards
Axel

Re: Is Alfresco (jLAN) a fitting replacement for jCIFS lib and to what extend?

mrogers — Wed, 26 Nov 2014 11:11:44 GMT

I think JLAN is a stand-alone project. I've heard of JLAN only customers and alfresco offers JLAN support.

Although of course Alfresco is by far the biggest user of JLAN.

There are bits of SMB versions > 1.0 already implemented such as oplocks which IIRC are not in version 1.0. There's a JIRA open to consider SMB 3.0 stuff.

Re: Is Alfresco (jLAN) a fitting replacement for jCIFS lib and to what extend?

mdzh — Wed, 26 Nov 2014 11:27:24 GMT

Hello,

Thank you both for the quick responses!

https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/MNT/component/12299/?selectedTab=com.atlassian.jira.jira-projects-plugin:component-issues-panel
I found the JIRA and it seems active.

Do you know who I can contact in order to get more information about JLAN?
I want a developer's opinion on JCIFS replacement. Possibly some code examples as well.

Thank you again!

Best regards,
M.D