Is Nuxeo VCS (Eclipse Apricot) usable as standalone library?

[thkoch_Koch]

(question copied from apricot-dev@eclipse.org)

We've a project with a bit of CMS pages to be managed. I could very well use JCR (JackRabbit) for these pages (or just a database table). However I very much like that VCS creates and alters database tables to reflect the contents structure.

The apricot project seem to be dormant. That's a pity. Do you think it'd be possible to take a recent release of nuxeo-core and use the nuxeo VCS from there? Or is apricot already in a usable state? Does it reflect the current state of nuxeo VCS?

We're also evaluating java based CMS alternatives (coming from PHP Typo3) and nuxeo looks like a nice candidate. So learning about nuxeo VCS would make sense if we'd end up with nuxeo.

[Florent_Guillau]

We have no plans to revive Apricot at the moment.

You can embed any part of Nuxeo in your application, including VCS, please see http://doc.nuxeo.com/x/LQBu for more. (This doc may be slightly outdated but the ideas are there, please tell us if you find inconsistencies.)

A simpler way to integrate your application with Nuxeo would be to make your application run as a Servlet in addition to the rest of Nuxeo, then you'd have access to an already-started Nuxeo.

You can strip down Nuxeo to whatever you need by removing bundles (and checking it still runs).

See also this question: http://answers.nuxeo.com/questions/429/embedding-nuxeo