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I’m very happy to announce that ModeShape 3.1.0.Final is available immediately in the JBoss Maven repository and on our downloads page. See our getting started guide for instructions. As always, check out our documentation, release notes, JavaDoc ... [More] , and our code on GitHub; use our forums or IRC channel to ask questions, and log any issues in our JIRA. Please consider upgrading to 3.1 if you’re [...] [Less]

I’m really excited to announce that ModeShape 3.1 (due out in a few days) will re-introduce the ability to federate data from external systems into ModeShape repositories. That might sound kind of esoteric, but let’s look at some simple scenarios ... [More] that show how powerful this is. (Long-time readers might recall that ModeShape 2.x had federation, [...] [Less]

UPDATE: Added a 5th option, as suggested by Bertrand Delacretaz. (This post was inspired by a response I recently wrote to a Stack Overflow question. That answer was a bit long, but I thought it would also be suitable as a blog post.) Many applications offer a way to tag “things” with either user-defined or [...]

It’s almost a certainty that you will have multiple applications and multiple threads within those applications simultaneously update data in your database. The speed of your application will depend significantly on how fast your database can perform ... [More] these simultaneous updates. If you’re using ModeShape, the first thing to know is that reading content does not [...] [Less]

Recently I gave a presented an overview of ModeShape 3, covering the basic features, deployment options, and best practices:

We released 3.0.0.Final a few weeks ago, but we’ve fixed a couple of minor issues and one larger, clustering-related issue. So we bundled these fixes into a 3.0.1.Final release. As always, the release is in the JBoss Maven repository (you can follow ... [More] our instructions for using ModeShape in your Maven application) and on our downloads page (which include a kit that install [...] [Less]

We released our second candidate release (CR) of ModeShape 3.0 last week, and the community discovered a few more issues with our AS7 integration, backup/restore, and query processing. Although the changes were relatively isolated, we still wanted to ... [More] give the community a chance to test these fixes before we cut the final release. So, ModeShape [...] [Less]

Update: changed the Scalability section to make more clear the scope of the term. When it comes down to it, ModeShape is a database. But there are lots of kinds of databases, and it’s always very important to choose a database that fits your application’s needs. Here are some of the characteristics that distinguish ModeShape [...]

The ModeShape community is very proud and happy to announce the immediate availability of 3.0.0.CR2! This is our second candidate release (CR) for 3.0, which means that if all goes well and no issues are found, we’ll simply retag this as 3.0.0.Final. However, if severe issues are discovered with CR2, then we’ll fix those and cut a [...]

The ModeShape community is very proud and happy to announce the immediate availability of 3.0.0.CR1! This is our first candidate release (CR) for 3.0, which means that if all goes well and no issues are found, we’ll simply retag this as 3.0.0.Final. However, if issues are discovered with CR1, then we’ll fix those and cut a [...]