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Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:36:19 +0300
From: "Jukka Zitting" <jukka.zitting@gmail.com>
To: dev@jackrabbit.apache.org
Subject: Re: Web app design pattern questions
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Hi,

On 6/20/07, Hendrik Beck (camunda) <hendrik.beck@camunda.com> wrote:
> > > work directly with too many jcr method calls like
> > > getProperty()/setProperty().  I definitely like the OCM tool, but i feel
>
> IMO that's the point. In general I would tend to go with Jukka's suggestion
> and use the JCR API as far as possible. But especially with JSF you can't
> really use it. JSP + JSF EL aren't powerful enough to use
> Node.getProperty("myProperty") or Iterators or things like that. So you have
> to put something on top, wrappers around JCR objects or a business layer
> that accesses the JCR API and provides and relatively plain getter/setter
> API for your web pages.

This is actually something I'd like to see OCM to help with. There was
brief related discussion on the Graffito mailing list a few months
ago, see especially:
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-graffito-dev/200702.mbox/%3c510143ac0702140601x54f50bedk1e09d2af133b0ec2@mail.gmail.com%3e

BR,

Jukka Zitting