CRX 2.1 Documentation

Introduction to JCR and CRX
Provides information about what CRX is, what the JCR standard is, and the differences between CRX and file systems and databases.

Find your way around in CRX
Provides an overview of the CRX web user interface, so you can find your way around quickly.

Getting Started for Developers
An introduction to the basics using a (simple) Blog as a development example.

Watch the Web Development Screencast
The screencast walks you through the main product modules and the "CRX Bookstore" example, an open source application illustrating the main aspects of web application development on the CRX platform.

Check out the CRX Bookstore Example
Click the Develop button on the Welcome screen and checkout the bookstore example application from a public subversion repository. Explore it's functionality and experiment by changing or extending the application.

Download and Start Working
Get up and running in no time using the CRX quickstart.

Setting up access rights
Provides detailed instructions on how to set up users, groups and their access rights to resources.

FAQs
Answers to some Frequently Asked Questions.

Glossary
See the glossary for definitions.

Everything you need to know about installing CRX, including requirements. Also includes troubleshooting information.

Describes how to upgrade your CRX repository from a previous release, including migrating content and version histories.

Look here for instructions on how to configure the CRX repository, covering topics such as integration, scalability, and high-availability.

• Installation requirements
• Supported platforms
• Platform notes
• Installing, starting, and stopping CRX
• Configuring the persistence manager
• Changing the port number
• Installing CRX on an application server
• Uninstalling CRX
• Troubleshooting installation issues
• Enabling CMIS Services in CRX
  

• Upgrading using CRX Quickstart
• Migrating to a new repository
• Re-filling the repository
• Migrating CRX content
• Migrating version history
• Migrating to the Tar Persistence Manager
• Updating CRX in Apache Sling Applications
• Upgrading CRX on WebSphere
• Upgrading CRX on WebLogic
• Upgrading CRX in CQ 5.3

• Repository
• Workspace
• Persistence managers
• Using a virtual file system
• LDAP
• High availability
• Scalability
• Load balancing
• Clustering
• Virtual repository
• OSGi

The basics of finding your way around CRX and CRX's graphical user interface.

Provides the fundamentals on how to manage the repository and all the content.

This command-line utility lets you access and manipulate repository content on the low level.

• Connecting to CRX
• An Overview of the GUI Console
• CRX Launchpad
• CRX Main Console
• Content Explorer
• Nodetype Administration
• Package Manager
• Content Loader
• Content Zipper
• Repository Configuration

• Searching repository content
• Populating the repository with content
• Importing and exporting content
• Creating packages
• Uploading packages
• Downloading packages
• Installing packages
• Building packages
• Building and streaming packages
• Uploading XML documents
• Downloading repository content
• Managing nodes
• Managing versions
• Managing properties
• Managing mixins

• Running the CRX Console Tool
• CRX Console Tool commands
• Troubleshooting the CRX Console Tool 

Provides instructions on how to set up access rights and permissions to pages and users. Also describes how to manage passwords.

What you need to know about working with workspaces, including troubleshooting and setting up workspaces.

To ensure full security of your installation you will need to perform regular maintenance like backing up the software and the repository.

• Setting security levels
• Managing passwords
• Changing the Admin password
• Password-protecting the anonymous account
• How CRX evaluates access rights
• Managing User Accounts
• Defining an Impersonator
• Managing Group Accounts
• Managing Access Rights
• Repository Locks

• Workspace Setup
• Adding new workspaces
• Switching workspaces
• Using a Virtual File System
• Eliminating unused files in the data store
• Optimizing TarPM
• Checking the repository
• Troubleshooting (repository diagnostics)
• Working with Logs
• Virtual repositories

• Backup scope
• Online backup
• Full backup
• Creating backups
• Automatically creating backups
• Hot backup
• Restoring repositories from backup
• Versioning
• Replication

The persistence manager saves the repository content to a permanent storage solution that needs to be configured.

What you need to know about configuring LDAP authentication for the CRX application, including examples.

Provides information on evaluating and increasing CRX performance, which includes high availability, load balancing, and scalability.

• Persistence managers overview
• The Tar persistence manager
• Configuring TarPM
• Optimizing Tar files
• Manually merging Tar index files
• Consistency checking and fixing (TarPM)
• Native persistence manager
• DB2 persistence manager
• Oracle 9 persistence manager
• Oracle 10 and higher persistence manager
• Microsoft SQL Server persistence manager
• MySQL server persistence manager
• Data store
• Running garbage collection

• Turning LDAP on
• Configuring LDAP
• Setting Access rights with LDAP
• Example LDAP web application

• CRX application performance
• Clustering
• High availability/failover clustering
• Load balancing/performance clustering
• Scalability
• Distributed users
• Table comparing clustering and other high availability solutions
• Active/active clustering
• Read-only clustering
• Active/passive clustering

• Introduction to JCR and CRX
• CRX components
• Jackrabbit compatibility
• Accessing the CRX repository
• WebDAV Access
• Source debugging
• Sample CRX applications
• Performance
• Access Rights
• Getting Started with a (simple) Blog example

• CRXDE Lite
  
• CRXDE
  
• Eclipse 
• IntelliJ
• CRX Launchpad - Integrated Web Development Framework
• Filevault tool

• API deprecation and backwards compatibility
• Java API reference
• CRX server API
• Sling API
• Sling docs
• Sling wiki
• Sling cheatsheet
• Jackrabbit API
• Jackrabbit docs
• Jackrabbit wiki
• OSGi™ Service Platform API
• Felix docs
• Felix wiki
• JCR 1.0 API spec (JSR-170)
• JCR 1.0 API
• JCR 2.0 API spec (JSR-283)
• JCR 2.0 API

• Short introduction to JCR development
• Connecting to a JCR repository
• Getting a JCR Session
• Reading workspace content
• Writing a Web application
• Writing a Java application

• The repository model
• How to model a Content Management System with CRX

• Full text searching
• Similarity searching 
• Spell checking
• Excerpt creation and highlighting
• Tag libraries

• Exploring CQ
  
• Deploying CQ
• Authoring Websites in CQ WCM
• Working with Digital Assets in CQ DAM
• Administering CQ
• Developing on CQ
• Testing CQ Projects
• Managing CQ Projects

• Exploring CRX
  
• Deploying CRX
• Using CRX
• Administering CRX
• Developing on CRX

• OpenText LiveLink Connector
• Vignette Connector
• Interwoven Connector
• MS Sharepoint Connector
• EMC Documentum Connector
• FileNet P8 Connector
• IBM Lotus Notes Domino Connector
• Fast to JCR Adapter
• Database Connector

CQ provides a complete suite of applications that enable organizations to optimize their online communications. All release documentation, including legacy documentation, is available.

CRX is a commercially packaged version of the Apache Jackrabbit and Sling open source projects and a powerful web application development solution. Find release documentation here.

CQ and CRX can be combined with several product modules. These modules enhance the performance of the infrastructure, make complex systems easier to manage, or enable our products to run in specific environments.

• CQ 5.3
  
• CQ 5.2
• CQ 5.2 addendum
• CQ 5.0 - 5.1
• Communiqué 4 (4.0 - 4.2)
• Communiqué 3 (3.0 - 3.5.6)
• Communiqué 2 (2.0 - 2.6)

• CRX 2.1
  
• CRX 2.0 (embedded in CQ 5.3)
• CRX 1.4.x
  
• CRX 1.4
• CRX 1.3
• CRX 1.2
• CRX 1.1
• CRX 1.0

• Advanced Content Management
  Forms, Offline Editor, WebDAV
• CQ as a portal including personalization
• CQ in Portal – Portal Director (CQ-Portlet)
• CQ Social Collab 
  Newsletter, Blog, Wiki, Calendar
• LDAP with SSO
• Multi-Site Manager (MSM)
  
• Active Clustering
• ContentBus (Virtual Repository)
• Targeting
  Segmentation, Multivariate Testing
• Digital Asset Management: CQ DAM

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