Jsr 170 News & Articles

Articles with titles like “Goodbye JCR, Hello CMIS” have been growing in numbers. The voices suggesting that the Java Content Repository standard is no longer relevant in a market dominated by non-Java content management systems are growing. Is JCR really dead?

Any acquisition (and there have been quite a few of them lately) in the content management industry usually makes a splash. Today, it was Day's day to stir up the media, analysts, bloggers, twitterati and industry watchers; provoking pontifications around the announced US$ 240 mil. acquisition by Adobe.

Here’s the first look at what the industry was buzzing about and what some of the possible implications of the deal might be -- for Day, for Adobe, for the market.

Following the initial introduction of the Content Management Interoperability Spec (CMIS) draft and reactions from Open Text and Alfresco, Day Software didn’t lag behind and responded to the proposed industry standard.

Day thinks that it’s good having a standard that functionally matches on a protocol level to what JCR (JSR170/283) specifies on an API level for Java.

CMSWire had a chance to chat with Day’s CTO David Nüscheler, and here’s what we found out.