16.21. Graph Model

One of the central concepts within ModeShape is its graph model. Information is structured into a hierarchy of nodes with properties, where nodes in the hierarchy are identified by their path (and/or identifier properties). Properties are identified by a name that incorporates a namespace and local name, and contain one or more property values consisting of normal Java strings, names, paths, URIs, booleans, longs, doubles, decimals, binary content, dates, UUIDs, references to other nodes, or any other serializable object.

This graph model is used throughout ModeShape: it forms the basis for the connector framework, it is used by the sequencing framework for the generated output, and it is what the JCR uses internally to access and operate on the repository content.