Nuxeo switches to Java technologies

As you may have already seen on the web, we are announcing a big transition for our ECM platform: we are switching from the Zope application server to the Java platform.

Nuxeo 5.0, successor of CPS, will be entirely based on the Java platform. It benefits from modern java technologies such as Java EE 5, JSF, JBoss SEAM, OSGi, etc. This transition started 8 month ago, when we have begun to integrate Java component into CPS. We, then, evaluated technologies from the java world, figured out that Java 5 was a big improvement, made some tests and research and finally decided to go with it for our next products.

This may be a big surprise for our long-term users and developers, but we believe we have made the right choice. Furthermore, we are not abandoning CPS, which will be supported for at least 3 years. We are taking it to the next level.

The new platform is still under intensive development and you can expect more announcements in a few days...

Nuxeo 5 will be available in 2 editions:

• Nuxeo Enterprise Platform to deploy large scale ECM solutions
• Nuxeo Rich Client Platform to create ECM oriented desktop applications

Nuxeo 5 introduces some innovative approaches and technologies:

• Nuxeo Runtime — Write once, deploy anywhere
  • Platform independent deployment and extension system (inspired by Eclipse’s extension point) that can be use to make any Java 5 / Java EE application easily extensible through plugins.
  • OSGi-based bundle model
  • Deploy to any Java platform through adapters (it currently includes adapters for JBoss and Eclipse)
• Nuxeo Core — “an embeddable enterprise content management core”
  • Full-featured document / content management engine
  • Based on the JCR API for persistence
  • Offers POJO and Java EE API
  • Offers a smart and powerful SQL-like language for querying the repository (Eclipse BIRT data source available)
  • Fully extensible through plugins
  • Deployable on JBoss and Eclipse
• A set of components that forms the ECM platform

The first public and stable release of Nuxeo 5 is due for November 15.

Related reading:

• Nuxeo website
• Nuxeo’s Java Switch FAQ (French version here)
• Nuxeo 5 community portal
• Nuxeo 5 roadmap
• Nuxeo EP 5 features list
• SVN repository