"JCR" is a shorthand for Content Repository API for the Java Specification API. This is a hierarchical database API written for Java.
I'm in the process of writing a similar API for Perl (see Repository::Simple), but I'm getting a little impatient and wanted something usable right now. Therefore, I used Inline::Java and some custom scripting to build a direct API port from the JCR and added the tools necessary to create and use a Jackrabbit repository.
If you have no idea what I'm talking about, I recommend the following resources:
http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=170 http://jackrabbit.apache.org/
Installation can be a bit tricky because this library depends upon Inline::Java, which didn't install without going through the process by hand. (I usually just let CPAN do all the work.) You must first install Inline::Java.
Then, you must install libwww-perl, as I use that to download the Jar files. I hope to remove this dependency in the future, but it's there for now.
After installing both of those, you should be able to run:
perl Build.PL
./Build
./Build test
./Build install
I generally try to make my build scripts as standard as possible. If you prefer using make, I have Module::Build distributing a makefile generator too:
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
Your comments are welcome. You may email me at hanenkamp@cpan.org or post a bug to CPAN RT:
http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Java-JCR
Contributions are also welcome, of course. If you'd like to participate in the development of this tool, send me an email.
Copyright 2006 Andrew Sterling Hanenkamp <hanenkamp@cpan.org>. All Rights Reserved.
This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.