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To aid in ingest or to provide services for external content, Fedora 4 has the ability to expose that content as if it were included in the repository. Federation is particularly may be useful for migrating content into Fedora 3 content 4 or serving large files already on disk. |
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Modeshape's FileSystemConnector documentation and configuration provide additional information about configuring the filesystem connector.
Fedora 3 Federation
As discussed in Fedora 3 to 4 Upgrade, another use for federation is to include content from a Fedora 3 repository in Fedora 4. This could be used as a temporary approach for migrating Fedora 3 content to Fedora 4. Or it could be used on an ongoing basis, for example to interoperate with applications that require Fedora 3.
Configuration
A sample Fedora 3 connector configuration to include in your Modeshape repository.json :
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Other Connectors
In addition to the filesystem connector, Modeshape includes several other connectors, for federating content from Git, CMIS repositories, and relational databases.
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