I’m slightly baffled by JSR170 – Content Repository for Java(TM) technology API, brought to my attention by Jon Udell. It’s a generic way of accessing content and metadata. All very nice, but it seems too generic that it doesn’t really distinguish itself from any other object repository. Of special note are versioning and searching. But this is an argument for versioning and searching APIs (which would be very useful), not for a whole new repository API.

I’d like to see JNDI used in this way. It’s a generic naming and directory interface. In theory you could put anything in it. Like documents.

(Of course, I’d probably have said the same thing about JMX before I started using it.)