The contest, which runs into the summer, is designed to have developers use the JCR API.LAS VEGAS – Day Software is launching the company’s first global Day
JCR Cup 2008 competition, designed to encourage the development of
content-centric applications based on the Java Content Repository
application programming interface for content access.
Day Software on March 26 announced the competition at TheServerSide
Java Symposium here. Day Software sells global content management and
content infrastructure software. The JCR API for content access is
known as Java Specification Request (JSR) 170.
Day officials said contest participants will be able to leverage
Day’s CRX, a fully JCR-compliant content repository based on Apache
Jackrabbit, and the bundled rapid Web development framework to create
blogs, wikis, business process management, multi-channel content
delivery and enterprise content management applications that
demonstrate originality, high-quality design and code, appropriate use
of the JCR API.
The company said entries will be accepted through midnight Pacific
time July 31 and will be judged by a panel of developers
and technologists that include David Nuescheler, Day’s chief technology
officer and the spec lead for JSR 170 and JSR 283, Joseph B. Ottinger,
editor of TheServerSide, and Michael Marth, an industry expert on Java
and open-source technologies. The winner will receive a fully
loaded MacBook Pro with a 17-inch widescreen.
“In the past, content-centric applications were typically built
using legacy repositories, databases and file-systems that lacked
standardized infrastructural facilities,” Nuescheler said. “Today, the
JCR standard, in conjunction with JCR-compliant repositories,
represents the ideal foundation for new content-centric applications
that can be built quickly and elegantly, with a focus on users and
their content.”
Developers interested in competing or reviewing contest rules can visit the Day JCR Cup 2008 Web site here.
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