Hi Vanita,
Do we need another database for Jackrabbit document library or can it coexist with the Portal database?
Yes it's a separate database... See
here for setup options
Does it need a seperate database user other than the one Liferay Portal uses? In other words, can the Portal datasource be used for Jackrabbit as well?
We used the same database user for both databases.. One thing I would also suggest is if you are going to use a DB datasource for your jackrabbit use a JNDI (see
here)it's a pain to have both the workspace.xml and repository.xml with both of them having credentials stored...
Has anyone used Jackrabbit with Oracle and Weblogic successfully before, specially in a clustered configuration?
No we haven't.. I have heard Oracle is a pain but no first hand experience so don't take my word for it... We attempted a Weblogic Server and DB2 before during our POC and between having performance issues and other random issues with the server and not ever finding the correct one size fit all dialect for DB2 we gave up and went to using 5.2.4 EE, Tomcat, and SQLServer for our setup...
Is it possible to install Liferay with the document library file system hook and while the document library is empty switch it to use Jackrabbit, Weblogic datasource with Oracle database?
I would say yes as long as it's empty... once you do switch you will need to clean out all the files/folders (except your configuration files) in whatever your repository folder is...
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