you can give a try to CRaSH an extensible shell that integrates with JCR, it does not support mounting of modeshape repositories but I think it would be trivial to integrate with. It's very useful for testing JCR queries or browsing a repository.

You can try Toromiro. It is a standalone Eclipse application for  browsing and editing Java Content Repositories. Since version 1.6.0 it has a ModeShape add-on which optionally can be installed from the Toromiro Extensions Update Site using Help > Install New Software...

Check the documentation for further information. If you have any problems, find a bug or have feature requests feel free to create an issue here.

Hello Torsten,

sounds interesting, it has to be noted however that Toromino is not free and not cheap. I tried it today but wasn't able to try it on modeshape as the install fails with:

An error occurred while collecting items to be installed

  session context was:(profile=profile, phase=org.eclipse.equinox.internal.provisional.p2.engine.phases.Collect, operand=, action=).

  No repository found containing: osgi.bundle,com.subshell.toromiro.adapter.modeshape.2.6,1.6.0

  No repository found containing: osgi.bundle,com.subshell.toromiro.adapter.modeshape.2.7,1.6.0

  No repository found containing: org.eclipse.update.feature,com.subshell.toromiro.adapter.modeshape.feature,1.6.0

  No repository found containing: osgi.bundle,com.subshell.toromiro.adapter.modeshape.help,1.6.0

Hello K. Bachl,

seems that you have run into a known bug.

You have to remove the last "/" from the Extensions Update Site URL and press "Test connection" in File > Preferences > Install/Update > Available Software Sites.

See "(Automatic) Update does not work" in the "Trouble Shooting" section of our documentation.

Afterwards you should be able to install the ModeShape add-on.

Hello Torsten,

did what you said and it then it works at first. But now I'm on next problem during install, see:

An error occurred while installing the items

  session context was:(profile=profile, phase=org.eclipse.equinox.internal.provisional.p2.engine.phases.Install, operand=null --> [R]com.subshell.toromiro.adapter.modeshape.2.6 1.6.0, action=org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.touchpoint.eclipse.actions.InstallBundleAction).

  Error while loading manipulator.

  Error while loading manipulator.

I'm on OS X Lion; At least I now know again why I never liked eclipse

Hello K. Bachl,

please add the following lines in the top of Toromiro/Toromiro.app/Contents/MacOS/toromiro.ini (example for 64 bit version) and try again to install the add-on:

-startup

../../../plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.201.R35x_v20090715.jar

--launcher.library

../../../plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.cocoa.macosx.x86_64_1.0.1.R35x_v20090707

Okay, here the complete workaround for all Mac users who want to try Toromiro 1.6.0 with ModeShape add-on (testet on Mac OS X 10.7.3 64bit)

1. Download Toromiro from official download page (e.g. Toromiro-1.6.0-macosx.cocoa.x86_64.zip).

2. Extract the zip file into a folder of your choice.

3. Edit Toromiro/Toromiro.app/Contents/MacOS/toromiro.ini and add the following lines at the beginning of the file (example is for Cocoa 64bit, look here for other Mac versions):

-startup

../../../plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.201.R35x_v20090715.jar

--launcher.library

../../../plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.cocoa.macosx.x86_64_1.0.1.R35x_v20090707

4. Start Toromiro for the first time and enter your licence key.

5. Go to File > Preferences > Install/Update > Available Software Sites and remove the last slash ("/") from each update site URL and press the Test Connection button like described here.

6. Install the ModeShape add-on from Toromiro Extensions Update Site using Help > Install New Software...

7. Restart Toromiro

We are working on a fix for that problem and will create a bugfix release in the next time.

Thanks, Torsten, for providing this recipe. Very cool.

I've just copied the Toromiro 1.6.1 bugfix release to our download/update servers. The problems described above will not appear with that version.

Thanks to K. Bachl for reporting the bug.

Thanks, Torsten, for fixing Toromino to accommodate this. Great work.

Hi, I'm working modeshape and I want this tool too. something like a browser to see Modeshape JCR repository.
Do you get your correct answer?

I will appreciate if any body help me!

Thank you.

We already have an "early access" pull request for it: https://github.com/ModeShape/modeshape/pull/919

It's not merged yet, but we hope to include it soon.

Thank you for response. And thank the team.