topic Multiple inheritance of node types in Alfresco Archive

Multiple inheritance of node types

legolas — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:04:49 GMT

Hi,According to section 6.7.2 of the JCR API specification, A primary node type must extend another node type (or more than one node type, if the implementation supports multiple inheritance).So I'd like to know if Alfresco's repository supports multiple inheritance of primary node types?Thanks in a

Re: Multiple inheritance of node types

legolas — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 06:34:22 GMT

Does anybody know the answer to this?

Re: Multiple inheritance of node types

kevinr — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 09:43:57 GMT

No Alfresco only supports single inheritance. But using Aspects (in a similar way to interfaces in Java) you can add multiple behaviours to a node.

Thanks,

Kevin

Re: Multiple inheritance of node types

legolas — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:24:17 GMT

Thanks for clarifying this.
Can aspects be considered similar to JCR mixin node types?

Marcel

Re: Multiple inheritance of node types

davidc — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 13:21:49 GMT

Yes, they can be considered similar.

In fact, Alfresco implements JCR's mixin node types as aspects.