take a look on the overview of jsr 170 at : http://www.theserverside.com/resources/article.jsp?l=JavaOneDayFour_03
I was thinking doing the same kind of thing for nukes. The goal is to avoid to do as many EJBs as we have modules and have better interractions between them.
I think that we can have a generic storage, that means a tree with versionning and localisation. Plus we can act on list for the parent-child relationship, that means for me getting a limit/offset of the children.
Each node would have properties also.
for instance the module html would use the path : /html/id where id the the id currently used in nukes html module. A lot of modules can fit in there.
Also that would enable a generic commenting scheme by allowing directed relationship between nodes. The module comment would contains node and each node would comment another node by a link.
Please give me your opinion. Modules are growing and we always have the same kind of structure repeating in each.
julien
Had not heard of this one yet, this sounds like an excellent idea.