Content Management Matters ™

Did you know that the Enterprise Portal Market is expected to break over US$ 1.4 billion this year? That's what the experts are saying and IBM intends to continue its leadership role in this market. They have just released the latest version of the IBM WebSphere Portal -- v6.1 -- and it looks packed with some really nice enhancements including some Web 2.0 capabilities every portal needs today.

If the Web is really about content, WebEngine is all about allowing content to be found.

Nuxeo, a leading open source ECM vendor, unveiled WebEngine, an open source web framework focused on content. Designed to be lightweight and versatile, WebEngine aims to allow users to quickly build and deliver next generation content-oriented web applications. A generation that is about more than just web publishing.

Struts...Tapestry...Seam, these are all fully featured, open source and very active Java Web app frameworks. And all were available to the Alfresco Enterprise CMS architects when they played deciders for their recent 2.1 release.

Why then did they choose to go "back to basics" with a Servlets+JSP approach which leverages the lesser known URI Templates specification when implementing their new Web Scripts functionality?

Although slightly behind schedule, Nuxeo is otherwise on-track to deliver the next the full point release of its open source enterprise content management system this week.

"Innovation is taking ECM out the 1990's"

With these words and the immediate availability of Alfresco Community Edition version 2.1, CTO John Newton hopes to position Alfresco as not just an innovator in the enterprise content management space but also in the enterprise architecture community.

The wait is finally over. After only three short months, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has released their report from the Web of Services for Enterprise Computing Workshop.

5 years, 1 month, 17 days.

That's how long it's taken for the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) specification version 2.0 to become a proposed recommendation.

Like the tree that falls alone in the forest, will anyone be there to hear when WSDL 2.0 becomes an approved standard?