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17.17. Configuring a Predefined Node Hierarchy

The SOA_ROOT/jboss-as/server/PROFILE/deploy/modeshape-services.jar/modeshape-initial-content.xml file is an optional XML file which can be added to the main ModeShape configuration file: 
<mode:initialContent mode:workspaces="default" mode:applyToNewWorkspaces="true" mode:content="modeshape-initial-content.xml"/>
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Its purpose is to allow users to configure, at repository startup, a predefined node hierarchy with which the repository will be pre-populated. In other words, once the repository has started up, the node hierarchy from the XML file will be already present in the repository. The name of the XML element will be the name of the node, while the XML structure itself (the nested elements) will define the hierarchy.
To define a specific JCR type for a node (or for that matter any other valid JCR property), one needs to define the JCR namespace: 
<files xmlns:jcr="http://www.jcp.org/jcr/1.0" jcr:primaryType="nt:folder" jcr:mixinTypes="mode:publishArea">
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This shows the definition of a "files" node, of type "nt:folder" and which has the mixin "mode:publishArea".
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