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Happy New Year! We’re starting off 2014 with a hot new release: ModeShape 3.7.0.Final is avaialble immediately from the usual locations, including our downloads page and in the Maven repositories. This release contains mostly bug fixes, but it also ... [More] eliminates several performance bottlencks when creating nodes (especially when using a cache store) and indexing (especially […] [Less]

A month ago I proposed that we relicense ModeShape under the Apache Software License (ASL) 2.0 starting with the first 4.0 release of ModeShape. To date the reactions have been nothing but favorable, so we’re going to proceed down this road. Please see the discussion thread for more details and to add any of your […]

Today we’ve released ModeShape 3.6.0.Final that addresses a total of 54 fixes, new features and enhancements, including: A new visual repository explorer web application that allows users to navigate, create, edit and query content. It’s quite nice ... [More] to be able to easily see what’s in a repository. We automatically install and deploy the application (along […] [Less]

ModeShape has had sequencers almost since the very beginning of the project. When you upload files or add other content to a repository, ModeShape sequencers can automatically process that content to extract useful information and represent it as ... [More] additional content in the repository. For example, let’s say that you are going to store (among other […] [Less]

That’s right – we’re thinking about ModeShape 4.0 and what it might look like. We’ve literally just created an initial plan, so it’s very early. However, please give it a read and give us your input and feedback! Below are answers to some big questions, but if you have others please contact us or add […]

Today we’ve released ModeShape 3.5.0.Final, with just over a dozen issues fixed, including a couple bigger ones: The technology-preview JCR Access Control List (ACL) feature introduced in 3.4 unfortunately caused extra work to be done in repositories ... [More] that never used ACLs. This release fixes this by adding an optimization that skips ACL checks until the […] [Less]

We’re happy to announce that ModeShape 3.4.0.Final is now available. This release contains lots of bug fixes and several new features, including: The new JDBC metadata connector will dynamically project database schema information (e.g., catalogs ... [More] , tables, columns, indexes, keys, etc.) as nodes in your repository. Store binary files in a Cassandra column-oriented database via the CassandraBinaryStore. […] [Less]

We’re happy to announce that ModeShape 3.3.0.Final is now available. This release contains most bug fixes, but does include two excellent new features that were contributed by folks from the Fedora Futures team. ModeShape now has a chaining binary ... [More] store that can sit atop several other binary stores, allowing client applications to create new binary […] [Less]

While in Europe to attend and talk at the NoSQL Matters conference, I was also invited to talk about ModeShape at several Java User Groups. Fortunately, the schedules worked out to talk to two JUGs: the Alpes JUG in Grenoble, France, and the Geneva JUG in Geneva, Switzerland. My talk was basically a more detailed [...]

Last week I traveled to Cologne, Germany, to attend the NoSQL Matters 2013 conference. There were lots of great talks, including both beginner and intermediate talks about all things NoSQL. It’s also really good to see the audiences have more familiarity with a variety of database technologies, and are more keenly aware that they have [...]