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fcrepo-webapp

Fedora Fedora RESTful HTTP API uses the open source Jersey RESTful Web Services framework that provides support for JAX-RS APIs and serves as a JAX-RS (JSR 311 & JSR 339) Reference Implementation. The jersey servlet dispatcher is configured in The jersey servlet dispatcher is configured in web.xml as  as follows:

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titleweb.xml
<servlet>
	  <servlet-name>jersey-servlet</servlet-name>
	  <servlet-class>comclass>org.sunglassfish.jersey.spi.spring.container.servlet.SpringServlet<ServletContainer</servlet-class>
	  <init-param>
		    <param-name>comname>javax.sunws.jersey.config.property.packages<rs.Application</param-name>
		    <param-value>org.fcrepo</param-value>
	</init-param>
	<init-param>
		<param-name>com.sun.jersey.api.json.POJOMappingFeature</param-name>
		<param-value>true<fcrepo.http.commons.FedoraApplication</param-value>
	  </init-param>
	  <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>

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The following spring files exist in a directory as configured in web.xml, which contains a context-param element with param-name "contextConfigLocation".  The param-value points to your a spring context configuration files, file "WEB-INF/classes/spring/*repository.xml". This configuration file imports a settings file located in the same directory or the file specified by system property fcrepo.spring.configuration. Note that these files are in the source tree under fcrepo-webapp/src/main/resources/spring and copied to WEB-INF/classes upon build.

fcrepo-webapp/src/main/resources/spring

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repository.xml

  • here you can specify the repository.json file to be loaded as the repositoryConfiguration, as well as the bean for repository factory and metricsthis imports all the settings from either the file specified in the system property fcrepo.spring.configuration or the provided configuration file fcrepo-config.xml
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titlerepo.xml
<bean name "modeshapeRepofactory" class= "org.fcrepo.kernel.spring.ModeshapeRepositoryFactoryBean">
	<property name="repositoryConfiguration" value  <!-- Master context for fcrepo4. -->
  <import resource="${fcrepo.modeshapespring.configuration:classpath:/spring/fcrepo-config/single/repository.jsonxml}"/>
</bean>

rest.xml

fcrepo-config.xml

This is where you configure your Fedora instance, including:

  • specify the repository.json file to be loaded as the repositoryConfiguration or use the fcrepo.modeshape.configuration system property.
  • bean for repository factory and metrics
  • bean implementation for InternalIdentifierConverter (identifier  translationChain),   StoragePolicyDecisionPointImpl, SessionFactory, and base-packages to auto scan into spring

eventing.xml  

  • bean implementation for eventing - observer, filter, event bus

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  • here you can specify the implementation for processing events

transactions.xml

  • Specify the config for transactions

minter.xml

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  • config for transactions
  • bean implementation for minting identifiers

It is recommended to use the provided fcrepo-config.xml as a starting point for your customization.

fcrepo4/fcrepo-configs/src/main/resources/config

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Fedora 4 uses Modeshape, a JCR implementation. We distribute a handful of known-good configurations for Modeshape and Infinispan, although we anticipate configuration tuning for deployment environments will be common.

https://github.com/ModeShape/modeshape/blob/master/modeshape-jcr/src/main/resources/org/modeshape/jcr/repository-config-schema.json http://docs.jboss.org/infinispan/5.3/configdocs/

Repository Config Options

These configuration files are copied to WEB-INF/classes from fcrepo-configs/src/main/resources upon build.

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cacheSize

  • The cacheSize option may be set to specify the size of the Modeshape node cache.  The default value is 10,000, and increasing this value can improve performance, particularly for the Many Members performance issue.  See the example configuration files, such as file-simple/repository.json for an example.

/config/clustered-mysql/repository.json

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  • Configuration for file-based object store for testing, not recommended for production. 
     

/config/jdbc-mysql/repository.json 

 

  • Configuration for MySQL-based object store.
     

/config/jdbc-postgresql/repository.json

 

  • Configuration for PostgreSQL-based object store.

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Fedora 4 stores binary content separately (to one of the above paths, depending on configuration). These files are stored hashed by the content SHA-1 hash. 

Performance considerations

Different Infinispan configurations can also have an impact on repository performance. 

 

Infinispan ConfigurationAverageMedianStandard
Deviation 
filecachestore0.11210.1050.0313
leveldb0.07360.06300.0445
leveldb with async persistence0.06100.05500.0220
RAM0.05170.04800.0148
leveldb with file binary store *0.06440.05700.0196
Total0.07030.05900.0318

* default configuration

Other module resources

fcrepo-module-auth-xacml

This XACML Authorization Delegate Module is based on the design documented here: XACML Authorization Delegate

/src/main/resources/policies

AdminPermissionPolicySet.xml

  • policy set for the admin role

AdminRolePolicySet.xml

  • define the policies for the admin role

GlobalPermissionPolicySet.xml

  • policy set for the basic role

GlobalRolesPolicySet.xml

  • define the policies for the basic role

PreventReadingMasterFilesPolicySet.xml

  • policy set that prevents access to any files with the mime type "image/tiff" that have the "http://example.com/mixins#master" type (example-mixins:master mixin)

ReadNormalNodePermissionPolicySet.xml

  • policy set for reading normal nodes

ReadOnlyExceptToLocalPolicySet.xml

  • policy set that prevents all repository-changing actions by all but those a localhost or on an internal network.

ReaderRolePolicySet.xml

  • define the policies for the reader role

WriteNormalNodePermissionPolicySet.xml

  • policy set for writing normals nodes.

WriterRolePolicySet.xml

  • define the policies for writing the normal nodes

/src/main/resources/cnd

xacml-policy.cnd

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Parallel stream processing

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fcrepo.streaming.parallel:false


If you are running Fedora on a multiprocessor machine you can level parallel processing across single requests by turning this option on.   Parallel processing of streams can boost the retrieval speeds of the RDF associated with objects with large numbers of inlinks (ie dependent objects with memberOf associations).  Enabling this option in conjunction with increasing with cacheSize parameter in your repository.json file can boost retrieval speeds significantly.

Skolemizing to Hash-URIs

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fcrepo.bnode.hash-uri=<true|false>

With this property set to 'true', Fedora will skolemize incoming blank nodes to hash-URIs (with UUID fragments) on the base URI to which the request was addressed. By default this feature is turned off for backwards compatibility.