Jackrabbit Configuration for Document Library in Liferay Clustering environment

Jackrabbit Configuration for Document Library in Liferay Clustering environment

·         Jackrabbit is the standards-based (JSR-170) content repository that ships with Liferay.

·         By default, Liferay is configured to store files on the local file system.

·         This will not work in a clustered environment, because all the nodes need to be able to access the repository.

·         For this reason, we will configure jackrabbit on both nodes to store documents in the Liferay database, and then we will enable its cluster configuration.

·         Liferay ships with the database and cluster configuration available, but commented out, so all we will need to do is comment out the default configuration and uncomment the database / cluster configuration.

Document Management System for Liferay Portal in Clustered Environment

Document management system for Liferay Portal

Objective:

                We want to scale the Liferay to manage documents in hierarchical manner which we uploaded using Documents and Media Library, where our Liferay is in a cluster mode and we can maintain the data as easy as we can.

Different Ways to achieve DMS in Liferay:

                Liferay introduces a new Document and Media Library which is capable of mounting several repositories at a time and presenting a unified interface to the user. By Default, users can make use of the Liferay repository, which is already mounted. This repository is built into Liferay Portal and can use as its back-end one of several different store implementations. In addition to this, many different kind of third party repositories can be mounted. If you have a separate repository you’ve mounted, all nodes of the cluster will point to this repository. Your avenue for improving performance at this point is to cluster your third party repository, using the documentation of the repository you have chosen. If you don’t have a third party repository, there are ways you can configure the Liferay repository to perform well in clustered configuration.