Today, (web) applications have to adapt to every vendor's proprietary API to interact with various content repositories. This has the negative effect of locking a large percentage of information assets in vendor specific formats, limiting access to information, impacting system evolution/migration, and availability of third party content management tools.
JSR-170 proposes an API to solve these issues.
this is quite an interesting topic - where can i download the slides or the presentation itself? (the link isn't activated)
thx