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Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 09:59:23 -0400
From: "Alex Leshinsky" <aleshinsky@iname.com>
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Felix,
 thanks for your input.

 The items actually live in a different tree (credential profiles belonging to individual users). And an item can only belong to one category.
 So that I need to model a one-to-many scheme (one category many items). Any suggestions in this regard?

 Thanks,
 Alex.

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From: Felix Oghina
Sent: 08/17/12 01:57 AM
To: users@jackrabbit.apache.org
Subject: Re: How to please

 Hi Alex, Why not store your items under the categories? For example you could have /.../category1/category2/item. That is pretty much "the JCR way". Alternatively, if for example you need to have items belong in multiple categories, you can use an array property. For example: --categories ----category1 ------@name=category1 ----category2 ------@name=category2 --items ----item1 ------@categories=[category1, category2] I think that would be pleasing enough ;). Cheers, Felix Alex Leshinsky <aleshinsky@iname.com> wrote: There’s an eerie feeling in me that this question has been asked and answered a million times. Being in the grip of my decades long RDB programming, I can’t seem to decide what is the “JCR way” to deal with this: I need to associate certain objects, lets call them “items”, with a classification named “category”. Categories have a hierarchical structure and sit in a tree outside items. An item can be associated with any node in the Category tree. I’m awa
 re that David calls IDs evil. So, how do I model that without risking to burn in hell? Many thanks! Alex Leshinsky


Alex Leshinsky

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