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Streamline Content Management with CRX

by Drew Falkman

Content. It's everywhere—in your Web site, on your intranet, on every user's computer in your organization. It is being created, and deleted, and modified at a nauseating pace. Even this article is content. Yet despite content's ubiquity, there has been no API level process for handling content in Java. Everyone's been creating their own implementations and methods for storing and accessing content, and when it's come to integration, this created a nightmare. JSR (Java Specification Request) 170 changes all this by finally defining an API for accessing content.

It is certainly no coincidence that content management company Day Software's CTO, David Nuescheler, is the specification lead on this process (the membership of this JSR group reads like a who's who of Java and content management software: IBM, Vignette, BEA, Sun, Macromedia, Oracle, etc.). Day has released, what is to my knowledge, the only content repository that implements this new standard: CRX.

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