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This post describe how to integrate Jackrabbit OCM and Spring by extending the standard JCR node types. In addition, it includes the guideline of writing unit test again Spring services. An full example is provided to readers for downloading.

It is extremely common for applications to store various pieces of information, most of the time in relational databases. While they do a great job when working with regular data types, they are not very efficient when dealing with binary data, for example images or documents. File systems can be used as an alternative and while they offer better performance, there is neither a query language for searching information nor a notion of relationship or transaction.