5' with Jackrabbit and OCM

This very small tutorial describes how to create an application with Jackrabbit OCM. In short, you have to:

Create one or more persistent classes.
Instantiate an Object Content Manager component.
Use the Object Content Manager to persist your data.

Create a persistent class

This tutorial is using the annotation support to define a persistent class. Your data objects are simple pojos with some OCM annotations. Here is a example of a PressRelease class.

package org.apache.jackrabbit.ocm.model;

import java.util.Date;

import org.apache.jackrabbit.ocm.mapper.impl.annotation.Field;
import org.apache.jackrabbit.ocm.mapper.impl.annotation.Node;

@Node
public class PressRelease 
{
@Field(path=true) String path;
@Field String title; 
@Field Date pubDate; 
@Field String content;

public String getPath() {
    return path;
}
public void setPath(String path) {
    this.path = path;
}
public String getContent() {
    return content;
}
public void setContent(String content) {
    this.content = content;
}
public Date getPubDate() {
    return pubDate;
}
public void setPubDate(Date pubDate) {
    this.pubDate = pubDate;
}
public String getTitle() {
    return title;
}
public void setTitle(String title) {
    this.title = title;
}
}

The annotation @Node has to be added on the top of the class. Each persistent class must have a path field which will be mapped into the JCR Node path. This can be specify with the annotation. @Field(path=true) Other persistent fields can be defined with the annotation @Field

That's all for the class definition. In other tutorials, we will see how to map advanced fields like collections or custom objects.

Instantiate an Object Content Manager component

In order to save a PressRelease object, you have to instantiate an Object Content Manager component :

List<Class> classes = new ArrayList<Class>();	
classes.add(PressRelease.class); // Call this method for each persistent class
	    
Mapper mapper = new AnnotationMapperImpl(classes);
ObjectContentManager ocm =  new ObjectContentManagerImpl(session, mapper);

Use the Object Content Manager to persist your data

Now, you are ready to create a new PressRelease and use the Object Content Manager to persist it into the JCR repository.

// Insert an object
System.out.println("Insert a press release in the repository");
PressRelease pressRelease = new PressRelease();
pressRelease.setPath("/newtutorial");
pressRelease.setTitle("This is the first tutorial on OCM");
pressRelease.setPubDate(new Date());
pressRelease.setContent("Many Jackrabbit users ask to the dev team to make a tutorial on OCM");
		    
ocm.insert(pressRelease);
ocm.save();
		    
// Retrieve 
System.out.println("Retrieve a press release from the repository");
pressRelease = (PressRelease) ocm.getObject("/newtutorial");
System.out.println("PressRelease title : " + pressRelease.getTitle());
		    
// Delete
System.out.println("Remove a press release from the repository");
ocm.remove(pressRelease);
ocm.save();