Dear Santa:

It's early to be sending desiderata, but I imagine after this very eventful year your develop -- I mean elves -- must be very busy. Anyway, I'd be grateful if you could leave any of the following in my stocking on December 25th.

• A broad set of plain old java objects for core content technology services (to run in any of our favored JVMs), which we can deploy independently of each other on an a' la carte basis to create our own custom content applications
• XHTML-compliant and WCAG-friendly application UIs
• A better content management page on Wikipedia (I've tried!)
• Genuine enthusiasm for JSR 283 among vendors and customers alike
• Substantial content technology (WCM, Portal, ECM) offerings coming out of the Ruby community
• A featherweight industry standard for passing simple workflow events from one system to another
• Another big vendor getting behind .NET in addition to Microsoft

OK, so that last one was a stretch...I'll be happy with whatever you bring!

Yours truly,

Tony Byrne