CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
17 May 2005
Company News
Content Management JCP Specification Underway to Improve Interoperability
Content management software providers BEA Systems, Day Software, FileNet Corporation, IBM, Open Text, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Vignette and other companies are working together under the Java Community Process JCP program to devise a Java Specification Request 170 Content Repository. In a clear move to drive openness across enterprise content management, collaboration, enterprise resource planning and storage, this draft specification is expected to break the proprietary back of the content management industry and help move data from proprietary silos, to open, manageable repositories of data that can be leveraged across various platforms.
Designed to enable the development of content-based applications that can be deployed on top of a number of different underlying content repositories, these companies believe the technology will help better enable customers to deploy content applications faster and more cost-effectively using an open standards interface.
"We are aiming to provide customers the added value that common content services enable when tied to business applications," said David Nuescheler, CTO of Day Software and specification lead of JSR 170. "Standards-based integration for the content management market will also open opportunity for customers to leverage multiple applications and allow data to be tapped and used across different systems in their organization."
The JSR 170 draft specification is designed to make content management software easier to deploy, provide greater access to content-rich applications and enable businesses to more easily access and leverage both structured and unstructured data within their organization. In final ballot through the JCP and expected to be fully ratified in May, the JSR 170 specification will enable applications to standardize access to content repositories.
"JSR 170 will help foster the growth of the Enterprise Content Management market by lowering content-enabled and content-centric application development costs for ISV and customer IT departments as well as lowering the integration costs shouldered by ECM vendors," said Dan Whelan, CTO for FileNet. "FileNet has contributed to the development of this standard as a member of the JSR 170 Expert Group and has incorporated an early version of the specification in its FileNet P8 Content Manager suite."
"IBM and other industry leaders are ahead of the game in this effort to drive toward open standards and work toward developing a specification to enable the development of content-based applications that can be deployed on top of a number of different underlying repositories," said Brett MacIntyre, vice president, IBM DB2 Content Management. "This is all about providing customers choice and open access to data repositories throughout their organization, allowing them to more easily access information on demand. We see JSR 170 as an important industry standard and a powerful complement to IBM's content federation product and broader information integration strategy." IBM WebSphere Portal 5.1 currently uses an early version of the JSR 170 draft specification and plans to incorporate the specification in additional products currently under development.
Since its introduction in 1998 as the open, inclusive process to develop and revise Java technology specifications, reference implementations, and technology compatibility kits, the Java Community Process program has fostered the evolution of the Java platform in cooperation with the international Java developer community. The JCP has more than 700 company and individual participants; more than 200 Java technology specifications are in development in the JCP program, of which 46 percent are in final stages. For more information on the JCP program, please visit http://jcp.org .
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