I am the spec-lead of JCR (aka JSR-170 [1] and
JSR-283 [2]) and a committer of Apache Jackrabbit [3]
hence my interest in Content Repositories ;)
I stumbled over OpenACS quite a few times and
to me it looks like we have a relatively compatible view
of what a content repository is and its value for
Web Application Development. I think you guys did
a tremendous job with OpenACS, congratulations.
JCR as the standardized content repository API
dispite being developed for the Java community
has been ported to a number of other languages and
environments like PHP, .Net, Perl, ...
I would be interested in hearing your opinions
on JCR and Jackrabbit in the context of OpenACS.
I am potentially thinking of two possible initial
ways to leverage JCR with regards to OpenACS.
(a) allow access from Java Applications to the
Content stored in OpenACS and
(b) to access content stored in JCR repositories
from OpenACS.
Anyway, I think JCR could be a good vehicle to
extend the reach of OpenACS to the Java
Developer community.
Thoughts, comments?
regards,
david
[1] http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=170
[2] http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=283
[3] http://jackrabbit.apache.org/
