Multiple inheritance of node types

[legolas]

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 advance,
Marcel

[legolas]

Does anybody know the answer to this?

[kevinr]

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

[legolas]

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

Marcel

[davidc]

Yes, they can be considered similar.

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