Jul
28
Red Red Wine (JCR Edition)
filed under jcr cms | posted by Michael Marth
David Nuescheler has a slide that compares JCR-based applications to an iceberg (see e.g here, first presentation, slides 18 and 19). No, not in the sense that it will sink the Titanic, but in the sense that the visible part is only a small fraction. Well, proving things that are hidden by definition is often a bit tricky. In the case of JCR-based apps one can refer to the traffic on the Jackrabbit user list or the number of Jackrabbit downloads.
But once in a while one can actually look at a previously hidden JCR application: a couple of days ago the JCR-based CMS "Brix" has been open-sourced. It is based on Wicket and Jackrabbit. From what I understand its origins are in online wine sales (note to self: next time ask for a content sample before posting).
In their own words:
Using Apache Wicket as the technology to serve the content makes it very easy to embed custom, stateful Wicket components into any CMS page, allowing rich integration with existing Wicket web application. Using Apache Jackrabbit allows Brix to easily integrate full text search, versioning, and WebDav access.
Thanks for making this available, guys.
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Michael,
Thanks for the nice mention - yes, Brix came from the wine industry (both the name and the tech). We hope you and the JCR community enjoy it and contribute. Hopefully if it continues to grow Inertia will also provide the wine at possible release parties. Feel free to email if you have any questions.
Paul Mabray
Chief Strategy Officer
Inertiabev.com