IBM Announces Plans to Roll Out Products based on the Innovative Standard
Day, a leading provider of global content management software, today announced that IBM will support the Java Specification Request (JSR)170, an initiative lead by Day’s CTO, David Nuescheler, across its product sets. The JSR 170 standard improves the interoperability between all repository vendors allowing developers to work with a homogenous API for all content repositories.
Computerwoche, a leading German IT magazine published by International Data Group (IDG), reported that IBM will now adopt the JSR 170 standard for all of its content related products. “...IBM announced at this year's Lotusphere that they will provide all their content systems with a JSR 170 compatible API...” (www.computerwoche.de). IBM’s announcement serves as validation for the JSR 170 standard of which Day has lead the charge since the inception of the committee.
“Progress continues on the work towards finalizing JSR 170. The standard has gained the support of industry leaders, including Apache, IBM, SAP, BEA and Oracle who serve as members of the JSR 170 expert group that our CTO is leading,” said Michael Moppert, CEO of Day. “Clearly, it’s a huge compliment to Day that other vendors are adopting the standard that Day has spearheaded for years.”
Other leading industry participants in the JSR 170 initiative include Documentum, Filenet and Vignette, all serving as expert group members. The standardization request is now available for public review from
