By (not) organizing the hierarchy of the content repository upfront, but by allowing it to grow dynamically based on meta data, I hope we can adhere to David Neuscheler's Rule #1, which was inspired by Stefano's "Data first vs Structure first" blogposting.
In the core of Hippo Repository 2, we're building a faceted representation of physical folders in Jackrabbit. Those virtual trees are again exposed as 'normal' JCR nodes, and can be used to represent all kinds of data in all kinds of different structures purely defined by their meta information.
Since this a bit of an abstract concept, I've recorded a little demo movie of how this works using the Hippo Repository 2.0 Showcase. Please be warned that this is a developers-only screening :)
Still a work in progress, we're aiming for a first release this November. Yes, we're still in Beta :). But not Web 2.0 style - we actually *like* getting feedback from people during development. Don't hesitate to checkout the code, read the Getting Started docs, and give us some feedback.
Comments (2)
I have to admit - that is quite cool :) Nice one!
Posted by Torsten Curdt | September 11, 2007 1:22 PM
Posted on September 11, 2007 13:22
Why do I feel that I've seen this a long time ago?
Anyway, nice to see that someone finally took some good ideas from back in the years and made them a viable prototype!
Posted by Pier Fumagalli | September 13, 2007 11:06 AM
Posted on September 13, 2007 11:06