JSR 170 (API for content repositories) Proposed Final Draft

TSS has an article on the newly finalized draft of JSR 170. 

From the JSR 170 JCP page:

The API should be a standard, implementation independent, way to access content bi-directionally on a granular level within a content repository. A Content Repository is a high-level information management system that is a superset of traditional data repositories. A content repository implements "content services" such as: author based versioning, full textual searching, fine grained access control, content categorization and content event monitoring. It is these "content services" that differentiate a Content Repository from a Data Repository.

Many of today's (web)applications are interacting with a content repository in various ways.

This API proposes that content repositories have a dedicated, standard way of interaction with applications that deal with content. This API will focus on transactional read/write access, binary content (stream operations), textual content, full-text searching, filtering, observation, versioning, handling of hard and soft structured content.

I’m excited about this… an api that is pretty fully featured but seems to be lightweight.  We’ll see how the reference implementation works and if we can use it to manage content in various repositories.