General

What is JCR / JSR-170 / Jackrabbit?

JCR is the acronym of the JSR 170: Content Repository for Java technology API, a standard interface for accessing content repositories. Jackrabbit is the reference implementation of that standard and the most popular Open-Souce implementation. It is full-featured and used in production environments. JCR-Explorer uses Jackrabbit for development and testing.

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What is the JCR-Explorer and what is cool about it?

The JCR-Explorer is a web-based tool to administer a JSR-170-based content repository like Apache Jackrabbit. For example it allows to browse and edit content, query the repository or view repository information.

Due to its web-based nature all users having access to the server your repository is running on can also use JCR-Explorer to browse it.

Alternatively there are solutions available running in Eclipse (like JCR Browser, also on SourceForge) or using Java WebStart (like JCR Controller). The choice is on you!

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