Remembering the Future

I recently had a chance to look at IBM's direction in content management. There are several solutions for content management in IBM's portfolio right now. Some of them can work together. Some of them have overlaps. And some of them do not have good integration with others...

Strategic plan is (as I understood it) to leverage JSR 170 to provide general unified interface to all content storages/products. As addition to JSR 170, WebDAV can be used to some extent.

It looks like JSR 170 will address basic features important for content management in Java world. I personally is interested in comparison JSR 170 with Microsoft's WinFS (and both with Topic Maps).