Marcel Reutegger wrote:
> Kenneth Yue wrote:
>> Is a javax.naming.spi.ObjectFactory implementation similar to
>> org.apache.jackrabbit.rmi.client.ClientRepositoryFactory planned? Please
>> consider doing it.  That would make my life (and my users' lives) much
>> easier.  :-)
> 
> JSR 283 does not mandate that javax.jcr.RepositoryFactory extends from
> javax.naming.spi.ObjectFactory. The EG decided that there should be a factory
> that is independent of JNDI.

Agreed.

> It would certainly make sense to have RepositoryFactory implementations also
> implement ObjectFactory. Feel free to create a JIRA issue. It should be too
> complicated to implement. patches welcome ;)

I've updated the description of 
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCR-1877 for this.  Thanks.

Ken

>> I can't believe I'm the only one asking for it!
> 
> well, the class was just added a couple of days ago. I guess you're the first
> one using it...
> 
> regards
>  marcel