Groundbreaking Standard Now Available in Public Review – Day CTO Leads Industry Expert Group
Day, provider of global content management software, today announced that the industry expert group, which the company is leading, has placed in public review the specification request for a groundbreaking new industry standard, called JSR 170. JSR 170, which has been developed according to the Java Community Process (JCP), will fundamentally improve the interoperability between content repositories and applications, allowing developers to work with a homogenous API for all content repositories. Most importantly, the JSR 170 standard will prevent the dangers of proprietary vendor lock in by ensuring that companies can easily manage content across the large-scale enterprise.
Day has long been an innovator in the content management industry with its virtual repository technology and its flagship enterprise content management software Communiqué. Day has now taken an industry-wide leadership role in developing and implementing a standard that will help the whole content management industry to grow and mature. Day’s CTO, David Nuescheler, has lead the JSR 170 initiative by chairing a global industry expert group since its inception. Apache, IBM, SAP, BEA Systems and Oracle all serve as members of expert group for JSR 170. Other leading industry participants include, Documentum, Filenet and Vignette.
“Content Repositories are becoming a key element in the software infrastructure of global companies and complex organizations. Infrastructure however can only be successful when it is based on standards. So far this has been missing in the content management industry which has been characterized by a confusing plethora of proprietary technologies. The goal of JSR 170 is to change this,” said Nuescheler.
“Day is proud to contribute with our technology vision to the evolution of our industry and bring content management out of chaos and confusion era and into simplicity and efficiency for customers,” said Michael Moppert, CEO of Day. “JSR 170 has the potential to become as relevant as other groundbreaking industry standards and play a similar role in the world of unstructured data such as SQL did in the world of databases.”
The standardization request is now available for public review from:
http://www.jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/review/jsr170/. The public review closes on 19 July 2004.
