[rules-users] Guvnor seems to copy assets across External RDBMS and file system

[Yuri]

That is what I was looking for - thanks Tihomir!


On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Tihomir Surdilovic <tsurdilo at redhat.com>wrote:

>  Hi Yuri, the lucene search indexes cannot be persisted to the JCR repo.
> They will always be persisted to your local file system. They can be
> removed however between server startups and will get regenerated on next
> use. The Guvnor admin tool generates Jackrabbit configs for different
> databases so its a good thing to use them, but you can always edit the
> generated configurations for your specific needs.
>
> HTH
> Tihomir
>
> On 1/14/13 1:22 PM, Yuri wrote:
>
> Thanks for the reply Jervis.  I would like to clarify my question,
> however: Guvnor uses a great deal of technologies with which I am not at
> all familiar. I am new to JCR in general and jackrabbit in particular, so
> even when I get something to seemingly work, I still question whether I've
> broken a best practice.  Having said that, I used guvnor admin tool to
> create the repository.xml file, and there are two spots where it still
> points to the file system instead of the DB.  In both cases, it is the
> SearchIndex element, using the lucene library.  I am pretty sure this is
> what is still creating the folders in my file system.  My question is:
> since the DB has its own indexes, do I still need the SearchIndex elements,
> and if so, is it better to leave them pointing to the file system?  I am
> asking because I assume that the repository.xml generated by the Guvnor
> admin tool is more accurate than what I would create as a novice.
> Thanks again for the help!
> Best,
> Yuri
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 8:55 PM, Jervis Liu <jliu at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>>  On 2013/1/10 23:30, Yuri wrote:
>>
>>  I set up SQL Server as the external repository, and left everything
>> else in guvnor and jboss AS7 configured pretty much according to defaults.
>>
>> When I create assets in guvnor, I see that changes are being made in the
>> MSSQL db. Despite changes to the db, however, I'm still seeing changes to
>> the Repository and Workspace folders. It gets more interesting when I
>> truncate the tables in the external guvnor db, and restart guvnor, it seems
>> to get all of its assets back from those two folders.
>>
>>  If you truncate your external db and you still get all assets back when
>> your restart Guvnor, then there must be some problems with your
>> configurations. Guvnor does nothing special as far as the persistent layer
>> is concerned, you should be able to follow JackRabbit document to set it up
>> correctly, for example:
>> http://jackrabbit.apache.org/jackrabbit-configuration.html#JackrabbitConfiguration-Persistenceconfiguration
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jervis
>>
>>   Am I doing something wrong? Is it reconstructing the assets from
>> lucene indexes? If MSSQL is already indexing things, is the lucene index
>> still necessary? Are these basic JCR concepts that I am not grasping?
>>
>> Thanks, Yuri
>>
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