JCR Implementation

[rdanner]

Is there any plan to expose the Alfresco impl behind RMI?

I guess one could argue that web service interfaces defeat the purpose.  RMI interfaces is more natural to java users.

anywho… just wondering.

[davidc]

Not in the short term.  But as 170 is a standard, RMI implementation layers will appear (I think JackRabbit has one) which could be hosted on top our local interface.  The only thing to consider is performance - 170 is a chatty interface, so the RMI implementation needs to be carefully map 170 interface calls to underlying RMI calls.

[rdanner]

Not in the short term.  But as 170 is a standard, RMI implementation layers will appear (I think JackRabbit has one) which could be hosted on top our local interface.  The only thing to consider is performance - 170 is a chatty interface, so the RMI implementation needs to be carefully map 170 interface calls to underlying RMI calls.

I can see how performance might be an issue.  It's going to be an issue with any remote api.  Like you said, the JCR requires a lot of calls which could be rather expensive.

I am not really thrilled about RMI anyway. I put some RMI wrappers around a number of the JCR interfaces just to build out a toy.  I didn't want to have alfresco loaded directly below my app.  At this point I am not seeing too much of penalty. 

I will look at jackrabbit, maybe I should just reuse the work they have there.