JBoss DNA Architecture

As shown in the diagram above, the major components are (starting at the top):

• DNA Eclipse Plugins enable Eclipse users to access the contents of a JBoss DNA repository.
• DNA JDBC Driver provides a driver implementation, allowing JDBC-aware applications to connect to and use a JBoss DNA repository.
• DNA Remote JCR is a client-side component for accessing remote JCR repositories.
• DNA Web Application is used by end users and domain experts to visualize, search, edit, change and tag the repository content. The web application uses views to define how different types of information are to be presented and edited in domain-specific ways. The goal is that this web application is easily customized and branded for inclusion into other solutions and application systems. The DNA Web Application operate upon any JCR-compliant repository, although it does rely upon the DNA analysis and templating services.
• DNA Publishing Server allows content to be downloaded, uploaded and edited using the Atom Publishing Protocol. With the DNA Publishing Server, the content of the repository can easily be created, read, edited and deleted using the standard HTTP operations of POST, GET, PUT and DELETE (respectively). More and more tools are being created that support working with Atom Publishing servers. The DNA Publishing Server operates upon any JCR-compliant repository.
• DNA WebDAV Server allows clients such as Microsoft Windows and Apple OS X to connect to, read and edit the content in the repository using the WebDAV standard. Since WebDAV is an extension of HTTP, web browsers are able to read (but not modify) the content served by a WebDAV compliant server. The DNA WebDAV Server operates upon any JCR-compliant repository.
• DNA Sequencers are pluggable components that make it possible for content to be uploaded to the repository and automatically processed to extract meaningful structure and place that structure in the repository. Once this information is in the repository, it can be viewed, edited, analyzed, searched, and related to other content. DNA defines a Java interface that sequencers must implement. DNA sequencers operate upon any JCR-compliant repository.
• DNA Analyses are pluggable components that analyze the content and the relationships between the content to generate reports or to answer queries. DNA will include some standard analyzers, like dependency analysis and similarity analysis, that are commonly needed by many different solutions. DNA analyzers operate upon any JCR-compliant repository.
• DNA Views are definitions of how types of information are to be presented in a user interface to allow for creation, reading, editing, and deletion of information. DNA view definitions consist of data stored in a JCR repository, and as such views can be easily added, changed or removed entirely by using the DNA Web Application, requiring no programming.
• DNA Federation is an implementation of the JCR API that builds the content within the repository by accessing and integrating information from multiple sources. DNA Federation allows the integration of external system, like other JCR repositories, databases, applications, and services.
• DNA Connectors are used to communicate with these external sources of information. In the federation engine, each source is able to contribute node structure and node properties to any part of the federated graph, although typically many connectors will contribute most of their information to isolated subgraphs. The result is that integration from a wide range of systems can be integrated and accessed through the DNA Web Application, DNA Publishing Server, and DNA WebDAV Server. Connectors also may optionally participate in distributed transactions by exposing an XAResource.
• DNA Maven is a classloader library compatible with Maven 2 project dependencies. This allows the creation of Java ClassLoader instances using Maven 2 style paths, and all dependencies are transitively managed and included.

What's coming first? We've got the Maven classloader working, and the sequencer framework is shaping up really nicely. (Drools is very cool! Check it out.) We'll follow these with views, federation and connectors, analyses, and the Publishing Server. The plan is to release early and release often, so expect to see these added pretty quickly.

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