Where do you integrate content?

Depends on where you sit -- and what you sell. Portal vendors tell you to aggregate at the interface level. AppServer folks say integrate at the logic tier. Database firms talk about federated repositories. Content integration (CI) vendors want their own servers to provide a nice, neat layer above the messy fray. Of course, none of them are entirely right or wrong. They're all starting to use Web Services protocols for added connectivity, but custom adapters are not going away soon either. One CI vendor, Context Media, is noisily pushing a new client app that uses SOAP to access content from disparate enterprise content stores, via Windows Explorer. Note that you can only retrieve content (when bidirectional services a' la WebDAV are the real prize), and you must use the tool in conjunction with Context Media's server product. Nevertheless, it's a good step towards disintermediating developers, and we suspect the firm's existing customers will find it useful...
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