What does ModeShape offer that JackRabbit doesn't?

Question

I just familiarized myself with Apache JackRabbit. I\'ve done a little multi-user repository for document management.

If anybody used both of them, could you please

Answer 1

Documentation of modeshape seems better. The folks at Jackrabbit provide limited documentation, when compared to other apache projects. I suppose that if you need fancy (enterprise) features, they want you to pay for it. Also note that you are almost forced to used a sql database as backend. Because almost all other backends are 'not intended for production use'. Compare to modeshape who just comes out and says it:

This is in fact the main purpose of ModeShape: provide a JCR implementation that provides access to content stored in many different kinds of systems, including the federation of multiple systems. A ModeShape repository isn't yet another silo of information, but rather it's a JCR view of the information you already have in your environment: files systems, databases, other repositories, services, applications, etc. ModeShape can help you understand the systems and information you already have, through a standard Java API

I'd rather prefer this clarity than letting people search their doc and google for information that doesn't exist.