Jsr-170 News & Articles

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) today announced its resignation from the JCP (Java Community Process) Executive Committee (EC). This comes in only a day after Java SE 7/SE 8 specs (JSR-336 and JSR-337 respectively) were officially approved by the JCP despite the ASF and Google voting against.

WCM Fields Notes is a regular column written in collaboration with Jon Marks (@McBoof), head of development at LBi. This first issue looks at evolving standards in the content management space and how they might influence you when selecting and implementing a web content management system.

Recently, the open source Magnolia CMS (news, site) saw its 4.2 version light that brings hierarchical data modeling, simpler integrations with external data sources, updated STK and a new node-builder extending the JSR-170 standard.

On the last day of the J. Boye 2009 Conference, Aarhus heard its mayor’s plea and slightly warmed/dried up. The event folk exclaimed, “It’s almost summer!”

The rather standard for this time of the year weather was followed by the web content management standards talk. David Nüscheler, the CTO of Day Software, presented his take on the top WCM trends for 2010 from the architecture and standards standpoint.

One of the final sessions at Gilbane SF yesterday was around content standards: CMIS, JSR-170 and JSR-283.

Many realize there are several challenges with CMIS in particular and efficiently working with content from disparate content repositories in general.

The session aimed at shedding light on some of these challenges and possible solutions in the standards space.
 

Day Software released three new editions of CRX, Day’s famed JSR-170-compliant Java Content Repository (JCR). These new goodies will make some developers and CIOs salivate -- especially those looking for leaner content infrastructure solutions based on Day’s commercial implementation of Apache Jackrabbit and Apache Sling.

In a nutshell, developers get free access to the CRX; and enterprises can get the CRX cheaply, on the pay-as-you-go model. Is that all? Not really. The impact on the entire Enterprise and Web Content Management industries may be a lot larger.

Hippo, a vendor in open source Enterprise Content Management and Portal technology, has launched version 7.0 of its Content Management System.

In the new release, Hippo CMS boasts easier categorization of content “that is not found in other open source CMS product,” in addition to a completely revamped technology core based on Apache Jackrabbit.

The Apachean Jack-of-All-Rabbits devotion sounds quite familiar, doesn’t it?

It’s a Swiss treats day for a Swiss vendor. Enterprise CMS provider Day Software has received the Swiss Open Source Award 2008 in the business category.

Recipe for success? Mix two tablespoons of Day with several pounds of a new chief marketing officer, who has arrived from Interwoven via the open source devout Alfresco. And, voila! The open source awards will follow.

Day’s recently-onboarded CMO Kevin Cochrane tells us all the glorious details about this award and (much) more — including, why he left Interwoven and Alfresco.

Other content management vendors have two choices when it comes to SharePoint — join it or beat it. The product is entrenched at the departmental level, nevertheless aspiring competitor, Alfresco, think they can uproot enough MOSS to make business sense of a full assault. Others seek harmony. Day Software is one of these. And their latest claim is that they can help SharePoint grow from department collaboration to enterprise content management.

With another integration under their belt, Day Software continues to prove the value of building a content management solution based on the Java Content Repository (JCR) standard.

In this case, SAP has slapped Day on the back for integrating Communiqué (CQ) with the SAP NetWeaver enterprise portal, enabling their customers to integrate business content and processes directly with the portal.

Not happy to just let people come to their new developer portal, Day Software is heading over to ApacheCon Europe 08 in Amsterdam to do a little social networking.

On Friday, April 11, Day’s chief scientist, Roy Fielding will deliver a keynote address entitled “Apache 3.0 (a Tall Tale). Prior to his keynote Friday, look for Fielding’s presentation today on “A Little REST and Relaxation”. In this presentation, Fielding will discuss the REST protocol he developed giving conference attendees an solid introduction and in-depth overview.

Other presentations by Day on Friday, include:

• Senior developer for JEE and portal applications Carsten Ziegeler’s presentation titled JCR in Action - Content-based Applications with Apache Jackrabbit. This might be a good presentation for anyone interested in winning that JCR Cup 2008. There will be a content management application demo during the presentation.
• Another senior developer for Day, Jukka Zitting will give a presentation called File System on Steroids - an Introduction to JCR. This presentation is all about the JCR standard providing an introduction to the JCR API and Apache Jackrabbit.

A great way to spend your Friday if you are a Java developer or architect. Especially if you want to win the first Day JCR cup, gleam all you can from the experts themselves.

Details on the conference are found here.

If you are hanging out at the Java Server Side Symposium in Las Vegas then you probably heard the news — Day Software is having a global application competition called the Day JCR Cup 2008.

Well known for their support of JSR 170, the Java content repository API for content access, the winner of this award must be able to demonstrate an original, high quality content-centric application — design and code — that uses the API.

The group over at Day Software has been very busy these days. Not only have they launched their own developer portal — dev.day.com — but they have entered into an OEM agreement with Exstream Software to bundle their products to create content-centric interactive applications.

Day Software, global content management and content infrastructure software extraordinaire, has launched dev.day.com, a corporate blog and portal by content experts, for content experts.

Designed to encourage communication among those who share ideas and interests around content-related topics, dev.day.com is aimed toward software developers and includes news and commentary surrounding JSR 170, the Java Content Repository (JCR) application programming interface (API) for stored content; representational state transfer (REST), open source and other related topics and technologies.