Patent ID: 8301726

Claim:
A data transfer method comprising: transferring data from a source Java Content Repository (JCR) to a target system, the transferring including serializing a source extensible markup language (XML) node schema including a plurality of nodes for the source JCR into a plurality of XML node files in a file system, each of the plurality of XML node files comprising a text file, at least one of the plurality of nodes comprising a binary node including binary data stored in the source JCR, the serializing including: for each of the at least one of the plurality of nodes comprising a binary node including binary data stored in the source JCR, serializing an identifier indicating to the target system the node corresponds to a streaming property and a path enabling access by the target system to the binary data in the source JCR into a corresponding XML node file in the file system without serializing the binary data, wherein the binary data remains in the source JCR and remains external from all of the plurality of XML node files corresponding to the source JCR.