Global content management and content infrastructure software expert wins Swiss Open Source Award 2008
Basel,
Switzerland and Newport Beach, CA (November 3, 2008) – Day Software
(SWX:DAYN, OTCQX:DYIHY), a leading provider of global content
management and content infrastructure software, today announced that
the Swiss Open Systems User Group has honored Day Software with the
Swiss Open Source Award 2008 in the business category. In honor of the
Swiss Year of Informatics, the independent foundation developed this
inaugural award to support the reputation of free and open software in
Switzerland.
Criteria for the award’s business category included
exceptional competence and generous support of open source software
projects. The judges – consisting of open source providers, experts and
professional associations – selected Day due to its work with Apache
Jackrabbit, Sling, and promotion of standards-based content
repositories for its efforts on JSR 170.
At Day Software, most
software engineers are open source developers – 75 percent of the
developers working for Day have active involvement in at least one open
source project. Currently, Day developers guide more than 25 open
source projects. For example, Day's developers contribute in many ways
to the Apache Software Foundation. Chief scientist Dr. Roy T. Fielding
is a founder, vice president of the Apache HTTP Server project and
former chairman of the Apache Software Foundation. Senior developer
Bertrand Delacretaz is a member of the ASF Board of Directors,
developer Jukka Zitting chairs the Apache Jackrabbit project, and
developer Carsten Ziegeler chairs the Apache Excalibur project.
Day
Software strongly supports open source projects in general. In November
2007, Day open-sourced a new Web application framework for building
RESTful applications, Apache Sling, for community development and use.
Based on the principles of the REST architectural style, defined by Dr.
Fielding in his pioneering dissertation, Sling was developed to support
rapid, scalable content application development atop Day’s CRX, a
commercially licensed version of the Apache Jackrabbit product. By
making Sling available to the open source community, Day provides
worldwide community use and leverages the expertise of developers from
around the globe to stay on the cutting edge of REST-based content
application development.
Day's employees also actively
contribute to the specification of open standards. For example David
Nüscheler, chief technology officer at Day Software, has led the JSR
170 specification for Java Content Repositories (JCR). Currently, he
works on its successor, JSR 283, and leads Day’s efforts to contribute
to the draft CMIS specification.
In addition, Delacretaz, Ziegeler, Zitting and senior developer Felix Meschberger
will
present on JCR applications with Apache Sling, open source
collaboration, Apache Felix and OSGi technology at the Apache Software
Foundation’s official conference, ApacheCon US 2008 in New Orleans,
November 3–7.
Delacretaz’s session on Wednesday, November 5,
titled Rapid JCR Applications Development with Sling, will discuss how
Sling enables rapid development of JCR-based content applications by
leveraging the JSR 223 scripting framework along with the rich set of
OSGi components provided by Sling. In his Open Source Collaboration
Tools are Good For You! session on Thursday, November 6, Delacretaz
will reveal how the collaboration tools used by the ASF allow any
project team to move from a collaboration model to an efficiently
distributed self-service information model.
Zitting’s
Introduction to JCR and Apache Jackrabbit, also on Thursday, November
6, will discuss the key concepts of JCR and demonstrate how to use
Apache Jackrabbit and related projects to build various types of
content applications, such as wikis, blog engines, email archives and
image galleries.
On the same day, Ziegeler will present a
session called Apache Felix - A Standard Plugin Model for Apache,
providing a status update on the Apache Felix project and showing, in
detail, how to launch and embed the Apache Felix framework into
specific projects.
Meschberger’s presentation on Friday,
November 7 entitled Scripting Your Java Application with BSF 3.0 will
serve as an instructional on how to add scripting support to a Java
applications using the Java Scripting API to support users’ preferred
scripting languages. Practical demonstrations will feature Apache BSF
3.0 as the Java Scripting API implementation and Apache Sling as a Java
application to be scripted.