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Preliminary Nuxeo EP roadmap for 2010

We have recently brainstormed internally and discussed with some of our customers and ECM analysts the roadmap for our planned improvements of Nuxeo EP.

View more presentations from Nuxeo - Open Source ECM.

In summary:

1. We want to make it easier for “users” (in the largest sense, from end users to Java developers) to use the platform in ways that bring value to their businesses.

2. Short term (Q1 and Q2 2010) technical improvements will include:

   • full CMIS support (icluding all the possible bells and whistles)
   • semantic features (auto-categorization and auto-tagging of content, named entities extraction, images clustering…)
   • better Windows server and desktop integration
   • rules, workflow and reporting

3. We will improve developer experience by implementing extension points hot reload (for shorter compile/deploy/test cycles) and focussing on Nuxeo Studio.

4. We will create new packaged profiles, or “distributions”, of Nuxeo EP + extensions, some as full-fledged applications targetting specific segments of the ECM space, such as Nuxeo RM (for Records Management), Nuxeo SDS (Structured Document Server) or Nuxeo Correspondence, and others as more technical components that can be easily embedded by systems integrators or ISVs in more complex product.

Read the slides for more information, then join the discussion on the community forum, or on the nuxeo-dev developers mailing list if you’d like to get involved with development of new features.

Everyone’s welcome to contribute.

Announcing the CMIS Shell (cmissh) - command-line client for CMIS

We’ve been working recently on a CMIS command-line client, called “cmissh”, based on the Apache Chemistry client code.

We have decided to donate the code to the Apache Chemistry project, as there are no dependencies on Nuxeo code in it.

cmissh can be used interactively (with a nice autocompletion console) to explore and run CRUD operations on a CMIS server, or as a testing tool. We’ve included, for instance, a test script in the distribution, called ‘testscript’, that can be run against the Nuxeo demo server and will fail on errors. I’ve also been able to use cmissh against the Chemistry test server.

If you are busy, you can download a binary distribution (built just before the migration to Apache) from here:

http://www.nuxeo.org/static/cmis/cmissh-20100115.zip

(or look for a later build here: http://www.nuxeo.org/static/cmis/).

and test it against our public CMIS demo server (available here: http://cmis.demo.nuxeo.org/) using the “testscript” script included in the distribution.

Here is a sample session:

SFs-macbook% cmissh
CMIS Shell by Nuxeo (www.nuxeo.com). Type 'help' for help.
|:> help
Usage: help [command]

To get help of a specific command, type 'help name_of_command'.

List of available commands:

cat - Read the stream of the target document to the console
cd - Change working item
connect [open] - Open a new session
disconnect [close] - Close current session
dump [tree] - Dump a subtree
exit [bye|quit] - Exit
get [getstream] - Downloads the stream of the target document
help - Help
id - Identity of the specified entry
lcd - Change local working directory
lls [ll] - List local directory content
lpopd - Pop local directory stack
lpushd - Push local directory stack
lpwd - Print local working directory
ls - List entries in working directory
match - Fails if last command result doesn't match the pattern
mkdir - Create a folder given its name
mkfile [mkdoc] - Create a document of the given name
popd - Pop directory stack
propget - Print the value of the given property on the current context object
props - (Obsolete) Print the value of all the properties of the current context object
propset - Set the value of a property on the current context object
pushd - Push directory stack
put - Uploads the stream of the target document
pwd - Print working directory
rm [del] - Removes an object of the given name
setstream - Set the given file content as a stream on the current context object

|> connect http://Administrator:Administrator@cmis.demo.nuxeo.org/nuxeo/site/cmis/repository

|> ls
default

|> cd default

|cmis.demo.nuxeo.org:default> ls
default-domain

|cmis.demo.nuxeo.org:default> cd default-domain

|cmis.demo.nuxeo.org:default-domain> ls
workspaces
sections
templates

|cmis.demo.nuxeo.org:default-domain> cd workspaces

|cmis.demo.nuxeo.org:workspaces> ls
demo-workspace

|cmis.demo.nuxeo.org:workspaces> cd demo-workspace

|cmis.demo.nuxeo.org:demo-workspace> ls
pictures

|cmis.demo.nuxeo.org:demo-workspace> cd pictures

|cmis.demo.nuxeo.org:pictures> ls
pony-jpg
dog-jpg
cat-jpg

|cmis.demo.nuxeo.org:pictures> put /Users/fermigier/Pictures/sf-square.jpg 

|cmis.demo.nuxeo.org:pictures> ls
pony-jpg
dog-jpg
cat-jpg
sf-squared.jpg

|cmis.demo.nuxeo.org:pictures> propget sf-square.jpg
cmis:baseTypeId = cmis:document
cmis:changeToken = [null]
cmis:checkinComment = [null]
cmis:contentStreamFileName = sf-square.jpg
cmis:contentStreamId = [null]
cmis:contentStreamLength = [null]
cmis:contentStreamMimeType = [null]
cmis:createdBy = Administrator
cmis:creationDate = GregorianCalendar(2010-01-21T16:14:05.000+01:00)
cmis:isLatestMajorVersion = false
cmis:isLatestVersion = true
cmis:isMajorVersion = false
cmis:isVersionSeriesCheckedOut = false
cmis:lastModificationDate = GregorianCalendar(2010-01-21T16:14:05.000+01:00)
cmis:lastModifiedBy = Administrator
cmis:name = sf-square.jpg
cmis:objectId = 01e009cc-11fd-4f84-a710-5af9cc12a97c
cmis:objectTypeId = File
cmis:versionLabel = [null]
cmis:versionSeriesCheckedOutBy = [null]
cmis:versionSeriesCheckedOutId = [null]
cmis:versionSeriesId = 01e009cc-11fd-4f84-a710-5af9cc12a97c
dc:contributors = [Ljava.lang.String;@555c07d8
dc:coverage = [null]
dc:description = [null]
dc:expired = [null]
dc:format = [null]
dc:issued = [null]
dc:language = [null]
dc:rights = [null]
dc:source = [null]
dc:subjects = [null]
dc:title = sf-square.jpg
dc:valid = [null]
filename = [null]
icon = /icons/file.gif
icon-expanded = [null]
major_version = 1
minor_version = 0
size = [null]
uid = [null]

|cmis.demo.nuxeo.org:pictures> get sf-square.jpg
Object stream saved to local file: ./sf-square.jpg

|cmis.demo.nuxeo.org:pictures> lls
sf-square.jpg

|cmis.demo.nuxeo.org:pictures> id
Object 0a37ffea-fd65-4e78-b3bc-074168dd99f9 of type PictureBook

|cmis.demo.nuxeo.org:pictures> quit
Bye

Interview with Cheryl McKinnon, CMO at Nuxeo, at ARMA

Here is a video interview of Cheryl McKinnon, our recently hired Chief of Marketing, by FierceContentManagement, on how life is different in an open source ECM firm such as Nuxeo, wrt her former job at OpenText.

Original post here.

Help Test the Nuxeo 5.3 Release Candidate

Nuxeo EP 5.3 has recently been published as a release candidate (RC), and will soon become generally available (GA).

Announcement

The full announcement, detailing the major new features in Nuxeo 5.3 wrt Nuxeo 5.2, is available on the Nuxeo corporate site.

Here is a short summary: the most notable enhancements include a new tag service, an improved import/export service, a CMIS implementation based on Apache Chemistry, performance tuning after extended… benchmarks, WSS (MS SharePoint) support, and OpenSocial widgets support.

We’ve also made 3 short videos to showcase some of the most important new features in this release.

Buzz

• TechCrunch
• CMS Wire
• Announcement on Freshmeat
• Neteco (in French)

Next steps

Remember that this a a release candidate, which should be tested as much as possible before the final (GA) release.

10 bugs have discovered so far, and are being actively exterminated by our diligent development team:

Your help is needed to find more (assuming there are any).

You can help by downloading the document management application(Nuxeo DM) based on Nuxeo EP, and reporting bugs or issues to the forum or on the Jira bugtracker.

Conversation about Enterprise 2.0

Tony Byrne has started a conversation (warning: website is down at present) about Enterprise 2.0 (aka Enterprise Social Software) on CMSWatch.

Here are my comments (waiting for moderation on the CMSWatch site).

• Is “Enterprise 2.0” more meaningful than “Social Software”?

  “Enterprise 2.0” is more than just social software. I define them with the SLATES and FLATNESS paradigms.

  And “Enterprise 2.0” is already passé. Let’s add semantics in the mix and call it “Enterprise 3.0” ;)

• Blogging is passé — vive micro-blogging?

  Blogging is passé for “hey look at this cool post on this guy’s blog” type of messages. But expressing complex ideas in less than 140 characters is not possible.

  So micro-blogging is just another tool of the trade, just as blogging hasn’t replaced mailing list or forums, or IM hasn’t replaced email.

  OTOH, I must admit that I’ve been blogging a lot less (and, more importantly, seeing much less blog posts by the people I follow on twitter) since I’ve started twittering.

• Can social computing consistently bring real ROI?

  In any context where collaboration and knowledge sharing is important, yes.

  But “real” meetings and discussions are still relevant, though ;)

• Should community managers have to worry about information lifecycle management?

  Yes. There is content that you need to control, specially in the face of trolling and other destabilisation attacks.

• Are social content ratings really helpful ?

  With the right (for the given context) rating algorithm, yes.

• Tools: suite or best of breed?

  Integration is of paramount importance. World-class open APIs help, a lot, but some features just need to be deeply integrated, at the repository level.

• Should your website/intranet have a community or be a community?

  Be, of course.

• Do you really need an enterprise micro-blogging tool when we have Twitter?

  Yes. Most people / corporations don’t want to merge personal and professional lives as the “A-list” twitterers do, and there are obviously confidentiality issues.